Sun Jones

MFA Student, Creative Writing - Poetry

Pronouns: she/they/none
Office: 4th Floor, Morrill Hall
Email: sun.jones@okstate.edu

Education

• BA, Missouri State University

Areas of Interest

• Poetry

• Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Queer Literature

• Asian Literature

• Korean Shamanism

• Mythology and Folklore

• Video Game Narrative

Recent Courses Taught

• ENGL 1113: Composition I

Selected Publications

Poetry:

• “Vile Affections,” Writers Resist, 2023

• “This is How the Body Knows,” The Good Life Review, 2023

• “You Cannot Serve God and Mammon,” MOODY, 2022

• “Bluegrass Baywatch,” “Two White Women Corner Me at a Work Party,” Skink Beat Review, 2022

• “an elegy for aunt phyllis,” “Horse Girl,” Juke Joint Magazine, 2022

• “Canis Minor,” “You Could Be Pretty,” Freshwater Literary Journal, 2022

• “Church Gossip,” beestung, 2022

• “Amateur Female Impersonator,” Westerly, 2021

• “Generation of Vipers,” Moon City Review, 2017

Fiction:

• “The Vessel of the Nameless Goddess,” Gilded Glass Anthology: Twisted Myths and Shattered Fairytales, WordFire Press, 2022

• “Downburst,” Typehouse Literary Magazine, 2022

• “God’s Orchard,” Bright Flash Literary Review, 2021

• “Project Novo,” Emerge: Lambda Literary Anthology, 2017

• “Mustard Seeds,” Moon City Review, 2017

Selected Conference Presentations

• “One Girl in All the World: Storytelling Through Environment and Exploration in Metroid Prime,” Undergraduate Literary Conference, Missouri State University, 2016

Professional Appointments/Service

• Assistant ESL Teacher, Ozarks Technical Community College, 2017-2018

• Assistant Poetry Editor, Moon City Review, 2014-2017

Awards and Recognition

• We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Award, Young Adult Fiction, 2016

• Missouri State University Student Fiction Prize, 2016

• Missouri State University Student Poetry Prize, 2016