Kathleen B. Jones was born and educated in New York. She holds a B.A. in political science from Brooklyn College and a Ph.D. from the political science program at CUNY’s Graduate School and Center. After teaching women’s studies for two decades at San Diego State University, she resigned to focus on writing, recently earning an M.F.A. in fiction from Fairfield University. Dr. Jones’s scholarly writing includes six books published with academic presses—three monographs and three edited anthologies of critical essays. Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt won the 2015 Barbara “Penny” Kanner Book Award from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Fiction International, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, the Briar Cliff Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
