Poetry. Winner of the 1999 Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award. "Alice Jones's ISTHMUS, a book-length love poem, explores the space where improbables meet, the arc of possibility for two lovers who have come together from opposite sides of the Pacific."—Kinereth Gensler and Janet Kaplen

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Alice Jones's books from Alice James Books are THE KNOT, which won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and ISTHMUS, winner of the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award. EXTREME DIRECTIONS was published by Omnidawn. GORGEOUS MOURNING and PLUNGE were published by Apogee Press. Poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Boston Review and VOLT, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry of 1994; Blood and Bone: Poems by Doctors; Verse and Universe: Poems About Science.

Her awards include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts, the First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Robert H. Winner and Lyric Poetry Awards from the Poetry Society of America. She practices psychoanalysis in Berkeley and is a supervising and training analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.