Alice Jones is an American poet, physician, and psychoanalyst. Her most recent collection of poetry is Vault (Apogee Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Boston Review, The Denver Quarterly, and Verse. Her honors include fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and practices in Berkeley, California. She is a co-founder and former co-editor of Apogee Press.
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Awards
2013, "Plunge" was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry
2009, First Annual Narrative Magazine Poetry Award
2006, Lyric Poetry Award (Poetry Society of America)
2001, Robert H. Winner Award (Poetry Society of America)
1999, Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award
1992, Beatrice Hawley Award
1994, NEA fellowship in poetry.
Memoir
Cadence of Vanishing. Unbound Edition Press. 2025. ISBN 979-8-991957557.
Full-length poetry collections
Vault. Apogee Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1733137515.
Plunge. Apogee Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-9787667-9-5.
Gorgeous Mourning. Apogee Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-9744687-1-6.
Extreme Directions (Omnidawn, 2002)
The Knot (Alice James Books, 1992)
Chapbooks
Anatomy (Bullnettle Press, 1992)
Isthmus. Alice James Books. 2000. ISBN 978-1-882295-27-2.