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TAYARI JONES
Assistant Professor

E-MAIL: tayarif@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Telephone: 973-353-5191

OFFICE: Hill Hall 620

WEB SITE: www.tayarijones.com

EDUCATION:
Arizona State University
MFA, Fiction 2000.
University of Iowa
MA, English  1994.
Spelman College
BA, English 1991

PUBLICATIONS:

NOVELS

The Untelling.  Warner Books, 2005

Leaving Atlanta.  Warner Books, 2002

El Cobre, Spain, 2006.

SHORT FICTION

"Have You Known Me Lately," Natural Bridge.  Fall 2005.

"Best Cousin,"  Sou'wester.  Spring 2003.
        Reprinted in New Stories From The South:  The Year's Best 2004.
Algonquin Books, 2004.

"Leesha," Crab Orchard Review, Fall/Winter 2002

"Press and Curl," Gumbo.  Marita Golden, ed.  Doubleday, 2002
        Reprinted in The Harvard Advocate. Winter 2003.

"Felecia and the Prodigy," Proverbs for the People.  TaRessa Stovall, ed.
Kensington Press, 2003.

Excerpts from Leaving Atlanta,  64  (Formerly New Virginia Review).  April
2001.

"Octavia" and "Saying Nothing"  (Excerpts from the novel, Leaving Atlanta),
Figdust.  Spring 1999.

"House Arrest," Catalyst, Spring 1992. 
Reprinted in Am I the Last Virgin?  Tara Roberts, ed, Simon and Schuster,
1997, and  HealthQuest:  The Magazine of Black Wellness, Summer 1994

"Eugenics," Catalyst, Summer 1991. 
Reprinted in HealthQuest:  The Magazine of Black Wellness, Fall 1993

CREATIVE NONFICTION

"Among The Believers,"  The New York Times.  July 10, 2005.

"Letter To Pearl," in Letters of Intent.  Meg Daly, ed.  Free Press:  1999.

"My Daddy, the Pregnant Warrior Woman and Me," in Father Songs.  Gloria Wade Gayles, ed, Beacon Press: 1997.

LITERARY CRITICISM

"Beyond the Privilege of the Vernacular:  An Examination of the Bondswoman
in 'Father to Son,' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Their Eyes
Were Watching God."  Langston Hughes Review.  Winter 2002.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

 "Symbolism and Cynicism", The Believer.  February 2008.

"The Toxic Silence,"  Op-Ed article.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  May
22., 2005.

"Heavy Lifting,"  Review of God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman.  The Washington Post, Feb. 8, 2005.

Interview with Chris Abani, The Believer.  March 2004.

Reprinted in The Believer Book of Writers Talking To Writers. Vendela Vida,
ed.  McSweeny's Books. 2006.

 "Motel,"  The Believer.  November 2003.

Review of Bombingham by Anthony Grooms.  Progressive.  January 2002

"Exposing War's Attack of Women," Review of War's Dirty Secret by Anne
Llewelyn Barstow.  National Catholic Reporter.  March 9, 2001

"Atlanta's Pain", Review of Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade
Bambara.  The Progressive.  July 2000

"Memories Boiled and Strained," Review of The Great Whirl of Exile by Leroy
V. Quintana,  The Progressive.  November 1999

"Folk Tale of Survival," Review of Gardens in the Dunes by Leslie Marmon
Silko.  The Progressive  February 2000