Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing
Based In: Washington, DC
Year at Millay: 2005, 2003
Awards/Honors: Prize Winner, BCALA 2020 Best of the Best Booklist, The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Hyattsville, MD (2020); Fellow, Shakespeare's Sister Playwriting Fellowship, A Room of Her Own Foundation, Placitas, NM (2011); Grant Recipient, Theater Education, Arts and Humanities Education Project Grant Program, DC Commission on the Arts, Washington, DC (2010).
Website: https://joyjonesonline.com/
Joy Jones is a trainer, speaker, and author of books for adults and children. Her book about Double Dutch, Jayla Jumps In (Albert Whitman & Co.) was ranked as one of the Best of the Best books by the The Black Caucus of the American Library Association in 2020. Her latest works are the picture book, The Sky Is Not Blue and A Marriage that Changed the World: Lois and Bill Wilson and the Addiction Recovery Movement, co-authored with Tom Adams.