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From unknown newcomers to Pulitzer Prize winners, we’ve championed Southern storytellers for over 30 years. Help keep these stories paywall free & independent.
Parneshia Jones studied creative writing at Chicago State University and earned an MFA from Spalding University. Her first book is Vessel (2015), and her poems have been published in anthologies such as The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), Poetry Speaks Who I Am (2010), and She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems (2011).