Baker Artist Portfolios

SYLVIA JONES is a writer, educator, and prison abolitionist. She earned her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and recently served as a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University. She’s associate poetry editor at Black Lawrence Press and works part-time teaching creative writing and composition at Goucher College and The George Washington University. She is also a first reader for the journal, Ploughshares. Her most recent writing appears or is forthcoming 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. She lives in Baltimore with her partner, Agata and their tabby cat, Theo. When not teaching or editing other people’s work Sylvia can be found either bird-watching or chipping away at the manuscript for her own debut collection of poems—which deals with the autobiographical life of objects, loss, hero-worship, upward mobility, and notions of class inequality.