This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Patricia Spears Jones
About
Patricia Spears Jones was born in Forrest City, AR, and has lived in Brooklyn, N.Y., since the early ’90s. Jones states that she encountered The Great American Songbook in junior high in and has hummed from it ever since. She is a poet, educator, cultural activist, and the author of The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon Press, 2023), A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems (2015), Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde (2006), and The Weather That Kills (1995). In 2023, Jones was named the new State Poet of New York by the New York State Writers Institute.