Cori Jones graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received an MFA from Cornell University, as well as a diplôme d’études supérieures from the University of Rouen. The author of more than a dozen short stories, she has read her work at Lincoln Center on Writer Nights and received awards and a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Jones lives in New Jersey and is an associate professor at Raritan Valley Community College.