EMILY TRISTAN JONES
  • JONES
  • ACTIVITY
  • BUTTERCUP
​Buttercup will soon be here. 
It was written with generous support from:
Picture
​
Emily Tristan Jones was raised on the tundra and prairies.  She has an MFA from the University of Chicago, where she won the emerging poets award. Her first full-length collection of poems is Buttercup, forthcoming from Chicago-based poetry press Verge Books.

​Pieces have been published by
Dalhousie Review,  The Puritan, EcoTheo, Shearsman, Harvard Review, Vallum, Salt, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. 
​

Emily studied conceptualism and painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and formed Hermes Gallery in Nova Scotia. She has curated exhibitions for Dalhousie University and other venues. Her films have been distributed by Vtape.

She lives in Montréal, where she facilitates poetry workshops for the Quebec Writers' Federation and runs Columba Poetry. 
​
She also teaches reading and writing to dyslexic children through Emily Literacy. 
​
Contact: [email protected]
Plus: perfumer
Picture

  • JONES
  • ACTIVITY
  • BUTTERCUP