Parneshia Jones!

We’re very pleased to announce that acclaimed poet Parneshia Jones will be joining us at this year’s Unbound. In addition to reading her wonderful poems, Parneshia will be participating in our panel on Equity in Publishing - which will be one of the “must see” events of this year’s festival. We’re looking forward to welcoming Parneshia to Columbia!

Parneshia Jones is the author of Vessel: Poems (Milkweed Editions), winner of the Midwest Book Award and featured as one of “12 Books to Savor” by O, The Oprah Magazine. Jones has been honored with the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Margaret Walker Short Story Award, and the Aquarius Press Legacy Award. Named one of the “25 Writers to Watch” by the Guild Complex and one of “Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago” by Newcity Magazine, her work has appeared in anthologies including, She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems and The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. Jones has been featured on PBS Newshour, the Academy of American Poets, and espnW.

She serves as the Editorial Director for Trade and Engagement at Northwestern University Press. Her acquisitions have garnered some of the highest literary honors, including the National Book Award, Kingsley Tufts, Pulitzer Prize finalists, Hurston Wright Legacy Awards, NAACP Image Awards, LA Times Book Award, and others.