I.S. Jones

I.S. Jones is the author of Bloodmercy, chosen by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2025 APR / Honickman First Book Prize and the chapbook Spells of My Name, selected by Newfound in 2021 for their Emerging Writers Series. Currently, she is a Senior Editor for Poetry Northwest, where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections. Her works have appeared in Granta, LA Review of Books, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. While she has lived in many places across the U.S., she gratefully calls Chicago home. (Source)

Poems by I.S. Jones

Self-Portrait as Tiona by I.S. Jones

July 31, 2023

"There's a dark joy in me that laughs at your meager gifts."

What We Agreed to Call “Snow” in Yorùbá by I.S. Jones

September 12, 2022

"Snow is a landscape of loneliness. // It returns to Earth if only to be touched a little longer."

Poems curated by I.S. Jones

Another Antipastoral by Vievee Francis

October 8, 2025

"My curious tale. I want to stand still but find myself moved patch by patch." — Vievee Francis