Background
Jones grew up in New York City and Newark, New Jersey.
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Lisa Jones
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She graduated from Yale University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Film from New York University.
Career
She joined the staff of the Village Voice in 1984 and wrote for the paper for 15 years. Jones is best known for her "Skin Trade" columns in the Village Voice, a selection of which were published as a book, Bulletproof Diva, in 1994. Jones published a memoir, Good Girl in a Bad Dress, in 1999.
Her essays have been widely anthologized.
Jones wrote the plays Carmella & King Kong and Combination Skin while involved with the Rodeo Caldonia, a feminist collective of African-American women artists. Combination Skin went on to premiere at Company One in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1992.
The New York Times Theater review called her "a fresh talent" and praised her "all-consuming vision". Combination Skin was anthologized in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color.
Jones also created three works for the New American Radio series of National Public Radio: Aunt Aida"s Hand (1989), Stained (1991), and Ethnic Cleansing (1993).
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