Most Recent: May 27, 2015
Georgia Jones-Davis grew up in Northern New Mexico and Southern California. She is one of the founding editors of the Herald Examiner newspaper Book Review and an Assistant Book Editor at the Los Angeles Times Book Review for 14 years. Her book reviews have appeared in many publications including The Washington Post, New York Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, Salon, Southwest Book Views and New Mexico Magazine. Her poetry has appeared in various publications including West Wind, The Bicycle Review, California Quarterly, Brevities, Nebo and South Bank Poetry, London, as well as Ascent Aspirations, a Canadian Journal, and Eclipse.
Her poems have appeared in the anthologies Blessings: Voices From the Valley (Hazel Street Productions, 2006); Chopin With Cherries (Moonrise Press, 2010) and Beyond the Lyric Moment (Tebot Bach, 2014). Georgia’s interviews with poets Mary Ruefle, Stanley Plumly and Suzanne Lummis have appeared during the last twelve months in Poets Quarterly.
Georgia is a former board member of Valley Contemporary Poets and founder of the Poetry Group at the Jewish Home for the Aging. She was honored as one of the Newer Poets 2010 by the Los Angeles Poetry Festival/Beyond Baroque and the Los Angeles County ALOUD Series. Georgia Jones-Davis is a member of the Academy of American Poets.
She is the author of a chapbook, Blue Poodle (Finishing Line Press 2011.) Her second chapbook, Night School, will be published in 2015 (Finishing Line Press).