Alden Jones

Alden Jones is the author of the memoirs The Blind Masseuse and The Wanting Was a Wilderness and the story collection Unaccompanied Minors. Her short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Rumpus, BOMB Magazine, New York Magazine, The Cut, The Believer, Agni, Post Road, The Barcelona Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, and Best American Travel Writing. Her awards include a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, the NYU Fellowship in Fiction, the New American Fiction Prize, two Independent Publisher Book Awards, and the Alan L. Stanzler Award for Excellence in Teaching; her books have been finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, and the Edmund White Award for Debut LGBTQ Fiction. She is co-founder and co-director of the Cuba Writers Program and has a long international career as an educator with a focus in Latin America. In addition to teaching at Emerson, she is a core faculty member of the Newport MFA program at Salve Regina University, where she teaches nonfiction and fiction.