About Alice Jones

Alice Jones’s collections of poetry from Alice James Books are The Knot, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and Isthmus, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award. Extreme Directions (The fifty four moves of Tai Chi Sword) was published by Omnidawn Press. Poetry from Apogee Press includes Gorgeous Mourning, Plunge, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, and Vault. Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Verse, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry; Blood and Bone: Poems by Doctors; and Verse and Universe: Poems about Science. Awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America. After training in Internal Medicine, she completed a second residency in Psychiatry. She now practices Psychoanalysis in Berkeley and is a personal and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.