Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of three collections, What Water Knows; Last Seen, a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection; and Gravity, U.S.A., recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award, as well as the chapbook, The Legend of Clarence Thomas. She is the author of the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me, published by Random House/Ballantine Books.

Ms. LaMon’s work has appeared in a wide variety of publications such as POETRY, Callaloo, and Narrative Magazine. Noted twice by the NAACP Image Awards in the category of Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry, Ms. LaMon is the recipient of fellowships from the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation, the Yaddo Foundation, the Cave Canem Foundation, Kimbilio Fiction, and others. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College and UCLA School of Law, Ms. LaMon earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry, from Indiana University Bloomington. A certified healing-centered life coach and creative project manager, Ms. LaMon continues to support poets and writers at all stages of their literary development through personal manuscript coaching at JJL Coaching, LLC. Jacqueline Jones LaMon is Professor Emerita in the Adelphi University Department of English.