I.S. Jones is a queer American/Nigerian poet and music journalist. She is a graduate fellow with The Watering Hole and holds fellowships from Callaloo, BOAAT Writer's Retreat, and Brooklyn Poets. She is the 2018 winner of the second annual Brittle Paper Award in poetry. In 2016, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. During poetry month (April), I.S. hosts a month-long workshop called The Singing Bullet. She is a book editor with Indolent Books, editor at Voicemail Poems, and freelances for Complex, Earmilk, NBC News Think, Ambrosia for Heads, and others. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Kweli Journal, Winter Tangerine, The Rumpus, The Offing, The Shade Journal, great weather for MEDIA, Anomalous Press, and elsewhere. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the first Kemper K. Knapp University Fellowship recipient. She splits her time between Southern California and New York.