Sylvia Jones

Sylvia Jones's first poetry collection, Television Fathers, was released in 2024 from Meekling Press. She is currently an editor at Black Lawrence Press and a reader for Ploughshares. She also teaches creative writing at George Washington University and with the Goucher Prison Education Partnership. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington, DC, and lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland. She has received fellowships and support from Peaked Hill Trust, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Walters Museum, Topical Cream, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Emerging Artist Initiative, OUTWrite DC, Poets at the End of The World Collective, Literary Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Bucknell University, where she was a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow. Her writing appears in R&R Journal, Smartish Pace, Sprung Formal, Revolute, DIAGRAM, The Hopkins Review, Poet Lore, Spilt Milk by The Poetry Society of New York, Shenandoah, and The Cortland Review.