Doug Jones

Doug Jones was born in Brooklyn, New York. An alumnus of Morehouse College, he received his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. His work has been included in the anthologies Black Love Letters (Zando Projects / Get Lifted Books), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature & Art (Third World Press), and Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (Other Countries Press). He has also written for Black Issues Book Review and Venus Magazine. An inaugural fellow of the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices, Doug’s early work was recognized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation. An avid art collector who enjoys swimming and traveling, Doug is a proud pet dad to a lovable mixed-breed German shepherd, Baldwin. Doug lives in Atlanta, Georgia. The Fantasies of Future Things is his debut novel.