Sylvia Jones
Courses Taught: ENGL 1210 Introduction to Creative Writing
Sylvia Jones is the author of Television Fathers (Meekling Press 2024) and Dope Calisthenics (Relegation Books 2026) She is poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and serves as a senior reader for the journal Ploughshares. Her writing can be found in: Smartish Pace, American Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Shenandoah , the Hopkins Review, Common Place Poetics, the Cortland Review, Strange Hymnal, R&R Journal, Mountaineer Books, and elsewhere. Jones lives and writes in Baltimore and has received fellowship and support from the Mastheads at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, Peaked Hill Trust; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Maryland Center for Culture and Arts, The Walters Museum, Topical Cream; Jack Straw Cultural Center; The Emerging Artist Initiative; OUTWrite DC; Poets at the End of The World Collective; Literary Cleveland; DC Arts Center; Creative Capital; Greedy Reads Bookstore; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Bucknell University, where she was a 2021-22 Stadler Fellow. Sylvia earned her M.F.A. from American University in D.C.
M.F.A, American University, 2020
Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) — debut poetry collection dealing with notions of class inequality, the autobiographical lives of objects, generational wealth, hero-worship, and artifacts of the public domain.
July 2022 — Mountaineer Books / Everglades National Park, Florida
“Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails”
The writing produced during that trip went on to be published in, Campfire Stories Volume II: Tales from America’s National Parks and Trails, it’s the second of two outdoors-themed anthologies. Edited by David
and Ilyssa Kyu. Published by Mountaineer Books. As a contributing writer, over the course of my stay in Florida I drew from my own lived experiences and other personal insights, related to the park.
June - 2022 — KCAI: Center Contemporary Practice Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri
“Windfall Room: Poem Recitations in Place”
Windfall Room is a poetry publication & archive presenting high-quality video recitations. Each issue of Windfall Room features a poet reciting from memory a poem
of theirs, in audio/video format, recorded and filmed in a meaningful location. The poem recited here first appeared in Spilt Milk, from The Poetry Society of New York
Books
Dope Calisthenics (Relegation Books 2026)
Television Fathers (Meekling Press 2024)
Journals
One Poem — the American Poetry Review
One Poem — DIAGRAM
Two Poems — the Hopkins Review
Three Poems — R&R Journal
Three Poems — Common Place Poetics
Television Fathers, Meekling Press (October 2024)