Jones Saeed

American poet whose debut collection Prelude to a Bruise was named a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Jones is also executive editor for culture at Buzzfeed. Jones has been a winner of the Pushcart Prize, the Joyce Osterwell Award for Poetry from the PEN Literary Awards, and the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Award for Literature, and a nominee for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Jones has been featured on PBS NewsHours poetry series and on "So Popular! with Janet Mock" on MSNBC. Jones also writes an advice column for BuzzFeeds READER newsletter entitled "Dear Ferocity." Jones grew up in Lewiston, Texas. He attended college at Western Kentucky University, then earned an MFA at Rutgers University-Newark. Jones now lives in New York City. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less