Background
Jones was born in New York City and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.
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Unaccompanied Minors
(Winner of the 2013 New American Fiction Prize "The seven...)
Winner of the 2013 New American Fiction Prize "The seven stories in Unaccompanied Minors crackle with edgy intelligence and dark humor and heart. Alden Jones writes with extraordinary insight about the hungers that drive us into the darkest corners of the self, in voices that are electric and unforgettable. From the first page to the last, Unaccompanied Minors is nothing short of stellar." - Laura van den Berg, author of The Isle of Youth Taut and fearless, mixing innocence with daring honesty, the stories in Unaccompanied Minors overturn our understanding of what it means to be young. A man on a mission to "save" people finds himself drawn to a brothel; two young women create mayhem in a homeless shelter; a group of Evangelical American teenagers descends on a quiet Costa Rican town; a girl who grows scales no doctor can remedy finds solace in a friendship with a classmate who doesn't eat. From the wilds of Tennessee to Costa Rica's gritty capitol city and suburban America, Alden Jones explores the consequences of acting in a world that rarely provides the accompaniment we expect. "Unaccompanied Minors is sad and thrilling and most of all true. Alden Jones knows how to make a story sing." - Kyle Minor, 2013 New American Fiction Prize Final Judge and author of Praying Drunk
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Alden Jones
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She graduated from Brown University in 1994, where she concentrated in Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies and studied fiction writing under Edmund White.
Career
Upon graduation, she spent a year in Costa Rica as a volunteer English teacher for WorldTeach. While she pursued graduate studies in Creative Writing at New York University and Bennington College, Jones traveled abroad frequently as a teacher and trip organizer to countries including Cuba, Costa Rica, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, and France, and wrote regularly for the travel section of Time Out New New York In 2006 she was a Visiting English Professor on Semester at Sea.
In 2000, Jones"s travel essay, "Lard is Good Foreign You," appeared in the inaugural edition of Best American Travel Writing, edited by Bill Bryson.
Jones continued to publish short stories and travel essays in AGNI, Prairie Schooner, Post Road, and other magazines. In 2013 her travel memoir, The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler"s Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
The Blind Masseuse explores the ethics of traveling as an American abroad and was named Recommended Reading by Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center and a Top Ten Travel Title of 2013 by Publishers Weekly.
Achievements
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ForeWord Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Award in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse Independent Publisher Book in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay longlist for The Blind Masseuse New American Fiction Prize for Unaccompanied Minors Independent Publisher Book in Short Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors Lambda Literary Award finalist in Debut Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors.
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Unaccompanied Minors
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Unaccompanied Minors
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ForeWord Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Award in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse Independent Publisher Book in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay longlist for The Blind Masseuse New American Fiction Prize for Unaccompanied Minors Independent Publisher Book in Short Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors Lambda Literary Award finalist in Debut Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.ForeWord Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Award in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse Independent Publisher Book in Travel Essays for The Blind Masseuse PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay longlist for The Blind Masseuse New American Fiction Prize for Unaccompanied Minors Independent Publisher Book in Short Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors Lambda Literary Award finalist in Debut Fiction for Unaccompanied Minors Lambda Literary (also known as the 'Lammys') are awarded yearly by the US-based Lambda Literary Foundation to published works which celebrate or explore LGBT themes.