Alden Jones
(She/Her)
As seen in:
Psychology Today,
The Boston Globe,
The Cut,
The Rumpus,
UnHerd,
The Millions,
BOMB Magazine,
The Smart Set Magazine,
GO Magazine (GoMag)
Covers:
Literature, the arts, travel, cultural criticism, feminism
Author/editor of The Wanting Was a Wilderness and other books. Fulbright Specialist. Prof @EmersonCollege. Paper texts. Feminism. Curiosity.
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Alden Jones’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Alden Jones is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College, where she teaches nonfiction and fiction writing. Her journalism has appeared in The Cut, New York Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Rumpus, the Best American Travel Writing, BOMB, Go Magazine, and Time Out New York. Her most recent book, The Wanting Was a Wilderness, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
Alden Jones’s Journalist Portfolio
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Interview
Have you ever used a typewriter?
I have fallen to the conveniences of the laptop, but I write in a way that is as unruly as typing on paper used to be.
What's the best pitch you ever got?
An academic dean pitched me on joining the Semester at Sea faculty for a voyage around the world. I went.