Sylvia Jones

Sylvia Jones is a lecturer at George Washington University and poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press—she also reads for Ploughshares. Her debut collection —Television Fathers was released in 2024 through Meekling Press. The followup, Dope Calisthenics, will be released in the fall of 2026 with Relegation Books. She earned her MFA from American University and lives in Baltimore, MD.