Discipline: Literature – fiction

Cori Jones

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Whitehouse, NJ
MacDowell Fellowships: 1988, 1989, 1998

Cori Jones, an associate professor at New Jersey's Raritan Valley Community College, has been published in journals such as The North American Review, Epoch, Fiction, and Fiction Network. A light nonfiction piece, “Billu the Beauty; Henry the Hero.” appeared in Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover’s Soul. “Sugar River,” one of two stories published in The Iowa Review, won a CLEP/General Electric Award for Younger Writers. She has received an Artistic Merit Award, a Distinguished Artist Award, and a Prose Fellowship from the state of New Jersey. She is working on a satirical novel, Batman U. Jones graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received an M.F.A. from Cornell University, as well as a diplôme d’études supérieures from the University of Rouen. The author of more than a dozen short stories, she has read her work at Lincoln Center on Writer Nights, and her story “Savior Games” won Second Place in Narrative’s Winter 2010 Story Contest.

Studios

Garland

Cori Jones worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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