Publishing Anticipation for MKA's Alden Jones '90's Latest Work

Look out for a lot of press about award-winning writer Alden Jones, MKA Class of 1990, over the next few weeks, when her highly anticipated travel memoir The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia is published by the University of Wisconsin Press on November 15.

Named a "Top 10" Travel Book by Publisher's Weekly!, Brian Bouldrey, 2013 Booker Prize Finalist notes "Alden Jones is something of a 'Prodigal Daughter,' and she has come home from her long travels to tell us the stories from her own life and education." Fast on the heels of this publication, her short story collection Unaccompanied Minors, winner of the New American Fiction Prize, will be published in early 2014.

A faculty member at Emerson College’s department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, Jones has lived, worked and traveled in over 40 countries, including as a WorldTeach volunteer in Costa Rica, a program director in Cuba, and a professor with the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea. A Bread Loaf Scholar, Jones has taught creative writing and fiction classes at NYU and Amherst College, and her work has appeared in AGNI, Time Out New York, Post Road, The Barcelona Review, NPR’s Cognoscenti. The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast and The Best American Travel Writing.