I.S. Jones is a queer American Nigerian poet and former music journalist. She is a Graduate Fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer’s Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, Washington Square Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Rumpus, The Offing, Shade Literary Arts, and elsewhere. Her honors include the 2021 Kemper K. Knapp Fellowship as well as the Hoffman-Halls Emerging Artist Fellowship. She is currently the Director of The Watershed Reading Series with Arts + Literature Laboratory and is Editor in Chief at Frontier Poetry. Her chapbook Spells of My Name was published by Newfound in 2021.
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