Lois P. Jones is the two-time winner of the Alpine Fellowship, judged by John Burnside in 2023 which took place in Fjällnäs, Sweden and in 2026 judged by Camille Ralphs.

A 2026 recipient of a William Faulkner Literary Prize, other honors awards include the Bristol Poetry Prize, judged by Liz Berry, the Lascaux Poetry Prize, the Tiferet Poetry Prize and winning finalist for the Terrain Poetry contest judged by Jane Hirshfield. She was a finalist in the annual Mslexia Poetry Competition judged by Helen Mort as well as the Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry from Orison Books and the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Jones was Highly Commended and published in the Bridport Poetry Prize Anthology as well as a shortlisted and published in the Bedford Poetry Prize anthology.

In collaboration with filmmaker Jutta Pryor and sound designer Peter Verwimp, her poem La Scapigliata won the 2022 Lyra Bristol Poetry Film Competition and was a 2023 finalist in the same competition for a collaborative poem written by Elena Karina Byrne and Lois, inspired by the painting Huapango Torero by artist Ana Segovia which was directed and edited by filmmaker Janet Lees.

Jones’ work appears or is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets – Poem A Day, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Mslexia, Plume, Image, Guernica Editions, Verse Daily,  RHINO,  Narrative, and others. Her first collection, “Night Ladder” was published by Glass Lyre Press and was a double finalist. She is an occasional  screening judge for Claremont University’s Kingsley-Tufts Awards. Jones hosted KPFK’s Poets Café, from 2007-2024 and now hosts The Title Drop, a new podcast series launched in April 2026.

Lois co-produced the Moonday Poetry Series for 20 years and currently acts as poetry editor for Pushcart and Utne prize-winning Kyoto Journal.  Jones has been a reader, judge  or editor for various fellowships, contests, and publication opportunities including as a panelist for Sarabande’s chapbook competition.

Jones participated as featured faculty at the annual Desert Nights, Rising Stars conference at ASU.  She will be offering a workshop in 2027 with Two Sylvia Press. Other appearances include the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, the Houston Poetry Fest, the Bristol Poetry Festival, the Eyewear Publishing launch in London, and conferences in San Miguel de Allende Mexico from 2005 to 2010 as well as Languedoc Rousseau, France with Pascale Petit.

Anthologies include Bridport Prize Anthology,  Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions,), Plume Poetry 9 , Thirty Days (Tupelo Press), Goodbye Mexico (Texas A&M University Press), The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing,), Wide Awake (Beyond Baroque), San Diego Annual (Garden Oak Press), In the Arms of Words (Foothills Publishing).

Her literary works have been translated to Korean for Miju Poetry and Poetics by the Korean Poets Society of America as well as Chinese for Mirrors and Windows published by Guernica Editions. Other work has been included in Arabic for the Publisher Weekly, Arabic Edition “Al-Nasher Al-Usboei” magazine.

The Poetry Saloncast

The Poetry Exchange (UK)

Liberated Words (UK)