Alden Jones

Alden Jones is the author of The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse, and the editor of Edge of the World, an anthology of travel essays by LGBTQ writers. Her books have won awards including the New American Fiction Prize and the Lascaux Book Prize and been finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and three Lambda Literary Awards. She holds a PhD in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute. She is Assistant Professor of creative writing and literature at Emerson College and also teaches at the Newport MFA.