Mary Jones is the author of the short story collection THE GOODBYE PROCESS (Zibby Books 2024). Her stories and essays have appeared in many journals including Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Subtropics, Alaska Quarterly Review, EPOCH, Columbia Journal, The Hopkins Review, Gay Mag, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose fellowship from The University of Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches fiction writing at UCLA Extension. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.