THE EMERGING WRITER:SERVING MANY MASTERS

TUES APRIL 9

7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.

HAMILTON ROOM, CENTRAL BRANCH, HAMILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

 JEN JONES has lived all over Canada (including the Arctic), and has been variously employed as a writer, cartoonist, courtroom sketch artist and karate instructor, as well as her day job as Batgirl.  Jones teaches creative writing at Mohawk College’s Continuing Education program and also runs Quoth the Raven and Rat Salad Graphix part-time. She was a recipient of the City of Hamilton Arts Award (Emerging Writer) in 2012, and a nominee in 2011. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (Art & Design major, English minor) from the University of Alberta, a Visual Communications Diploma from Grant MacEwan University, and a Writing for Publication Certificate from Mohawk College. Ms Jones volunteers on Hamilton’s gritLIT 2013 Literary Festival committee, and is also serving as Vice President of the Association of Canadian Editorial Cartoonists/L’Association Canadienne des Dessinateurs Éditoriaux. In 2012, Jen Jones was a featured writer in the Hamilton Spectator’s State of the Arts series. She is a graphic novel aficionado (and proud member of Geeks Night Out, a graphic novel book club), as well as a tenuously playing guitarist in a cacophonic living room band called Utopian Nancy. Jen writes short fiction and novels, and has in progress two short story collections, a novella and a novel about a geologist experiencing unrequited love. She has also written, and is in the process of illustrating, a children’s book, and going through the grueling process of converting one of her poems, Shutting Up Pacino, into a graphic novel. She submits her writing and poetry to various contests/publications with some success, but is still waiting for the Big Break and the villa in Italy.