Danell Jones  (author of The Whimsical Muse: Poetic Play for Busy Creatives, Two Sylvias Press, 2020)
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Danell Jones has taught literature and creative writing for more than thirty years. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in various publications including the Denver Quarterly, Beyond Baroque, Red River Review, Gingko Tree Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Tonopah Review, and Literature and History. Jones earned a Ph.D. in Literature from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Bennett Cerf Award for her work on Virginia Woolf. She was the winner of the Jovanovich prize for poetry from the University of Colorado and has been a finalist for both the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference Poetry Prize and the PEN/Nelson Algren in Fiction. Her chapbook of poetry inspired by life in the Mojave entitled Desert Elegies was a finalist for New Women’s Voices Series. She is the author of two books: The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing and An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor, winner of the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction.

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