Patricia Spears Jones

Patricia Spears Jones is author of the poetry collections: Painkiller and Femme du Monde from Tia Chucha Press and The Weather That Kills from Coffee House Press and five chapbooks including Living in the Love Economy. Her collection, A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems was published by White Pine Press. She was a finalist for the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America and the Paterson Prize from the Passaic County Community College. She has received a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund award for her memoir in progress, and The Jackson Poetry Prize, one the most prestigious awards for American Poets.