Adjunct Faculty
Creative Writing
Kaylie Jones is a novelist, creative nonfiction writer and editor. Her most recent work, a collection of CNF essays entitled Bad Mother, have been individually published in venues such as The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, and The Southampton Review.
Her memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, was released by Harper Collins in 2009. Her third novel, A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (Bantam, 1990) was adapted as a Merchant Ivory Film in 1998. Celeste Ascending was published by Harper Collins in 2000 and her novel, Speak Now, was released by Akashic Books in 2003. Her novels have been translated into many languages including French, Dutch, German and Japanese.
Kaylie taught fiction at The Writer's Voice from 1988 to 1996, before helping to create the MFA Program in Writing of LIU's Southampton campus, now the SUNY Stony Brook Southampton College M.FA. Program in Writing, where she still teaches. Currently, she chairs the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, hosted at Wilkes University, which awards $10,000 annually to an unpublished first novel.
Kaylie is also the proud editor of Long Island Noir, an anthology of crime fiction published by Akashic Books in 2012. Kaylie's latest novel, The Anger Meridian, was published by Akashic Books in June, 2015. In November 2011, Kaylie was given an award by the National Coalition Against Censorship for her work in bringing to print an unexpurgated, uncensored edition of her father’s classic novel, From Here to Eternity.
Kaylie’s newest endeavor is her imprint, Kaylie Jones Books, under the aegis of Akashic Books. The most recent novels published by Kaylie Jones Books are Laurie Loewenstein’s Death of a Rainmaker, which was chosen as a 2018 Book of the Year by NPR and Library Journal; Laurel Brett’s The Schrodinger Girl (January 2020), reviewed in the New York Sunday Times Book Review; and Lauren Sharkey’s Inconvenient Daughter, The Rumpus’ June 2020 Book Club selection.
Her latest short fiction will appear in The Night Bazaar: Venice, edited by Lenore Hart, to be published in October 2020. Her CNF essay, “Fork in the Road,” appears in the anthology One Last Lunch (May 2020), edited by Erica Heller. Kaylie holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and is a founding faculty member of the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program.