Lois P. Jones | Poets & Writers

South Pasadena, CA 91030

Website:

http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/poetscafe/

Author's Bio

Lois P. Jones has work published or forthcoming in Eyewear, Texas University Press and Pirene's Fountain anthologies and has published in Tupelo Quarterly, Narrative Magazine, American Poetry Journal, The Nassau Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Askew, Raven Chronicles, Antioch University’s Lunch Ticket and other journals in the U.S. and abroad. Lois’s poems have won honors under Web Del Sol judges Kwame Dawes (Prairie Schooner), Fiona Sampson (Poetry Review) and others. New Yorker staff writer, Dana Goodyear selected “Ouija” as Poem of the Year in the 2010 competition sponsored by IBPC. She is the winner of the 2012 Tiferet Poetry Prize and the 2012 Liakoura Prize. She was long listed in the 2015 Poetry Review annual contest (UK) and shortlisted for the 2016 Bridport Poetry prize. Lois's poem placed first in The Bristol Poetry Prize.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

Chopin With Cherries

(Moonrise Press, 2010)

, Goodbye Mexico

(Texas A&M University Press, 2014)

, In the Arms of Words

(Foothills Publishing, 2005)

, Meditation on Divine Names

(Moonrise Press, 2015)

, San Diego Annual

(William Harry Harding--Garden Oak Press, 2012)

, The Poet’s Quest for God

(Eyewear Publishing, 2014)

, Thirty Days

(Tupelo Press, 2015)

, Wide Awake

(Beyond Baroque, 2014)

Journals:

2 River Review, American Poetry Journal, Arsenic Lobster, ASKeW, California Quarterly, Cider Press Review, Cultural Weekly, Kyoto Journal, Loch Raven Review, Lunch Ticket, Narrative Magazine, Pirene's Fountain, Poemeleon, Poetic Diversity, Prism Review, Qarrtsiluni, Quill & Parchment, Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal, Stone Voices, The Lascaux Review, The Nassau Review, The Raven Chronicles, The Rose & Thorn, The Sierra Nevada Review, The Warwick Review, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Tupelo Quarterly, Web del Sol

Prizes Won:

2016 Bristol Poetry Prize winner, 2016 Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in poetry; 2012 Tiferet Writing Contest (Poetry); 2012 Liakoura Poetry Prize; Poem of the Year - IBPC 2010 Second Place, Judged by Fiona Sampson First Place, Judged by Kwame Dawes First Place, Judge by Fleda Brown. Lois's work was long-listed in The Poetry Society's National Competition out of 13,000 entries (2014).