Beth Jones

Beth Jones received her MFA in Writing at Warren Wilson College and her MA in English at the University of Maine at Orono.  Her poetry has appeared in The Georgia Review, West Branch, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, River Styx, Bellingham Review, William and Mary Review, Seneca Review, Cimarron, The Adirondack Review, and on Maine Public Radio’s Poems from Here.  She is the recipient of a Maine Arts Commission Springboard grant, the Isabella Gardner Fellowship at MacDowell and residencies at Ucross and Hedgbrook.  She’s taught writing at UMO, College of the Atlantic, Thomas College, and Central Maine Community College.  For nearly 20 years, she’s taught yoga in many Maine community programs, including Togus VA, Family Violence Project and Day One, a program for youth in trauma and addiction recovery.