Kathleen B. Jones

Born and educated in New York, Kathleen B. Jones taught Women’s Studies for twenty-four years at San Diego State University and was a visiting professor at UC-San Diego and UC-Berkeley.

In addition to numerous academic books, she published two memoirs: Living Between Danger and Love, (Rutgers University Press, 2000) and the award-winning Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt.

Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Fiction International, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, The Briar Cliff Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Her novel, Cities of Women, will be published by Turner Publications in September, 2023.

Kathy is also a playwright. Acts of Faith, an adaptation of the short stories of Grace Paley, was produced in San Diego, CA. The Origin of the Seasons, a fictionalized adaptation of Living Between Danger and Love, was produced in Flagstaff, AZ, and Santa Barbara, CA.

She was awarded multiple grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, writers’ grants to the Vermont Studio Center, and an honorary doctorate from Örebro University, Sweden. Kathy lives in Connecticut.