MARY JONES is the author of the USA Today bestselling short story collection THE GOODBYE PROCESS (Zibby Books 2024). Her writing has appeared in many journals including Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Subtropics, Alaska Quarterly Review, EPOCH, Gay Mag, Epiphany, Santa Monica Review, Brevity and elsewhere. The recipient of a summer prose fellowship from The University of Arizona Poetry Center, her work has been cited as notable in The Best American Essays and appeared in The Best Microfiction 2022. Originally from Upstate New York, she lives in Los Angeles.