Arkansas-born and raised, resident of New York City for more than three decades, Jones is author of the poetry collections Painkiller and Femme du Monde (Tia Chucha Press) and The Weather That Kills (Coffee House Press). She is also editor and contributor to Think: Poems for Aretha Franklin’s Inauguration Day Hat and co-editor of the groundbreaking anthology Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women from the late 1970s. Her website is www.psjones.com.