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Sun Jones

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

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