Born and raised in Arkansas, Patricia Spears Jones has lived since the mid-1970s in New York City, where she has been involved in the city's poetry and theater scenes as poet, editor, anthologist, teacher and former Program Coordinator for the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church and worked with Mabou Mines, the internationally acclaimed theater collective. Spears Jones is author of two collections, The Weather That Kills, published by Coffee House Press (1995), and Femme du Monde, from Tia Chucha Press (2006), as well as several chapbooks and plays.
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