Alden Jones: Edge of the World

Alden Jones explores tips for writing memoirs and discusses her work in fiction.  She is the author of The Wanting Was a Wilderness, Unaccompanied Minors, and The Blind Masseuse. Her books have won awards including the New American Fiction Prize and the Lascaux Book Prize and been finalists for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and two Lambda Literary Awards. Short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, The Cut, the Boston Globe, Agni, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Post Road, and The Rumpus. Alden holds degrees in literature and creative writing from Brown University, New York University, and Bennington College. She is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.  Her latest work is Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing Learn more at alden-jones.com  Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: On Twitter/X: @writingtablepc Everywhere else: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you"d like us to invite to the Writing Table: writingtablepodcast@gmail.com.