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Award-winning Poet, Novelist

Jacqueline Jones LaMon - Short Bio

 

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, UCLA School of Law, and Indiana University Bloomington where she earned her MFA in Poetry. A graduate fellow and member of the Board of Directors of Cave Canem Foundation, Inc., her first poetry collection, GRAVITY, U.S.A., received the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award. Her second collection, LAST SEEN, is the recipient of the 2011 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press). Her first novel, IN THE ARMS OF ONE WHO LOVES ME, was published by One World/Ballantine Books. Her work has appeared in publications such as CRAB ORCHARD REVIEW, INDIANA REVIEW, MYTHIUM, NINTH LETTER, CALLALOO, the NEW PITTSBURD COURIER, and the INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER. She is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Adelphi University, where she teaches poetry, literature, and pedagogy.

 

 

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