1. Parneshia Jones is the author of a 2015 poetry collection, Vessel, which won the Midwest Book Award.
15 Facts About Parneshia Jones
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In 2020, Jones was appointed director of Northwestern University Press.
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Parneshia Jones graduated from Chicago State University with a Creative Writing degree and went on to get her Master of Fine Arts degree from Spalding University.
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Parneshia Jones began her career in publishing as an intern at Third World Press, where she worked with Haki R Madhubuti.
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In 2003, aged 22, Parneshia Jones became a marketing assistant for Northwestern University, where she continued to gain experience as she worked with many different writers.
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In September 2020, Parneshia Jones was appointed director of Northwestern University Press.
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Parneshia Jones is the second black woman to be a leader at a university press in the United States.
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Parneshia Jones's work has been published in anthologies including The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Poetry Speaks Who I Am, and She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems.
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Parneshia Jones has worked with esteemed authors of Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, and National Book Award acclaim.
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Parneshia Jones acquired Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis, 2017 winner of the Kingsley Tufts poetry award.
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Parneshia Jones has worked with Kwame Dawes, Angela Jackson, Kyle Dargan, Karl Kirchwey, Ellen Hagan, and Nandi Comer.
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In 2019, Parneshia Jones became a Visiting Writer in Residence at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Parneshia Jones has served as president of the Board of Directors of the Cave Canem Foundation, and is currently on the advisory board of the ShoreFront Legacy Center, an organization and foundation that documents African-American history on Chicago's North Shores.
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Parneshia Jones has received the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a Margaret Walker Short Story Award, and an Aquarius Press Legacy Award.
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Parneshia Jones has received fellowships and residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Association of University Presses, Princeton University Press, and the Yale University Publishing Course.