Alden Jones’s most recent book is The Wanting Was a Wilderness (Fiction Advocate, 2020). Her story collection, Unaccompanied Minors, won of the New American Fiction Prize, the Lascaux Book Prize, and an Independent Publishers Book Award in Short Fiction. Her memoir, The Blind Masseuse, was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award and was named a Top 10 Travel Title by Publishers Weekly. She is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College and is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Cuba Writers Program.

Website: aldenjones.com

Twitter Username: @aldenejones

Publications

• The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia , University of Wisconsin Press (October 15, 2013)
• Unaccompanied Minors , New American Press (June 15, 2014)
• The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed's Wild and the Art of Memoir , Fiction Advocate (August 25, 2020)

Employment

• Writer-in-Residence, Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College (September 2022 - )
• Core Faculty at The Newport MFA (June 2018 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature (English/Spanish) from Brown University (December 1994)
• Master of Arts in English Lit and Creative Writing from New York University (May 1998)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Bennington College (January 2001)
• Doctoral Degree in Creative Practice (current PhD candidate) from Transart Institute at Liverpool John Moores University (June 0)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction