Roger Jones

Roger Jones was born in 1954 and grew up in East Texas and California, with pit stops in Oklahoma and Iowa. He graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BA in 1978, and two years later received an MA from the same institution. In 1986, he received a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, where he graduated "with distinction" and a 3.9 GPA. He received the 1980 Texas Review Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection Remembering New London, and the 1993 Texas Review Southern/Southwestern Breakthrough competition award (judged by Edward Hirsch) for his collection Strata. He has published close to 200 poems, articles, essays, interviews in a variety of journals, including Iowa Review, Texas Review, Hawaii Review, Evansville Review, Baltimore Review, Poem, Poet Lore, Rio Grande Review, Slackwater Review, Bloomsbury Review, Southern Poetry Review, and others. He was a past recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. He is one of the faculty advisors for Persona, the annual SWT student literary periodical.

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