Department of English

Holly Goddard Jones

Email: hgjones@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3123

Education

M.F.A. The Ohio State University
B.A. University of Kentucky-2002

Research Interests

Ms. Jones teaches undergraduate and graduate workshops in fiction writing and creative nonfiction, as well as courses on narrative form and technique.

Selected Publications

• Girl Trouble. New York: Harper Perennial, 2009.
• “Allegory of a Cave.” Shenandoah 59.2 (2009): 5-29.
• “Retrospective.” The Kenyon Review 30.3 (2008): 4-45.
• “Parts.” The Hudson Review 60.4 (2008): 569-86.
• “Theory of Realty.” The Gettysburg Review 20.1 (2007): 635-60. Rpt. in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 2008.Ed. Z. Z. Packer. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2008. 1-34.
• “Proof of God.” EPOCH 56.1 (2007): 51-78. Rpt. in Best American Mystery Stories 2008. Ed. George Pelecanos. Boston: Mariner Books, 2008. 74-101.
• “Life Expectancy.” The Kenyon Review 29.1 (2007): 154-72. Rpt. in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 2007. Ed. Edward P. Jones. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2007. 178-99.
• “The Dancing Girl.” Velocity Weekly 7 Feb. 2007: 38; 14 Feb. 2007: 32; 21 Feb. 2007: 34; and 28 Feb. 2007: 34.
• “An Upright Man.” EPOCH 55.3 (2006): 297-344.
• “Good Girl.” The Southern Review 41.3 (2005): 582-602. Rpt. in New Madrid.

Awards and Honors

• Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, 2007.
• Peter Taylor Scholarship in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2006.
• Pushcart Prize “Special Mention,” 2005 and 2006.
• Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 2002.

Links

The State of Things: The Little Horror Story That Grew

Bookshelf

Girl Trouble

Book by Holly Goddard Jones

The Salt Line

Novel by Holly Goddard Jones

The Next Time You See Me

Novel by Holly Goddard Jones