Laura Jones is a writer living in Ohio, USA. She is completing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Northwestern University, and in the fall will begin teaching writing at Central State University. In 2015, she won the AWP Journals Prize in Nonfiction at NU. Her work can be found in "Creative Nonfiction", "Fourth Genre", "About Place Journal", "The Gay and Lesbian Review", and the "Oklahoma Review". A collaborative work about growing up in the south, "Southlandia", will be published in the anthology THEY SAID in 2018.