Anthony Jones
 
 
 

Anthony is a Lebanese-American fiction writer and podcast producer based in the Bay Area.

He studied Creative Writing at UCLA under Mona Simpson and David Wong Louie where he was awarded with the Ruth Brill Scholarship for excellence in fiction. His work has been featured (or is forthcoming) in places like Litro Magazine, F(r)iction Magazine, Rusted Radishes, PANK Magazine, Midway Journal, Miracle Monocle, Chicago Literati, The Under Review, The Montreal Review, MAYDAY Magazine, and Poetry Quarterly. He has performed stories at the Bay Area Book Festival, Franklin Park Reading Series, Quiet Lightning Reading Series, Lit Nights, Housing Works Bookstore, and the Treefort Music Festival. He was also awarded with a fiction fellowship at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco.

In 2019, he co-launched Jones & Woolf, an audio fiction podcast pairing literary noir and sci-fi with electronic music. The podcast was named as a finalist for the Google Podcasts Creator Program, and it won the bronze medal for fiction at the Australian Podcast Awards.

Along with producing new podcast episodes, Anthony is currently working on a novel.

 

Selected Work

The Legend of Heather “Natural” Conway / Litro Magazine / November 2023

Three Stories (live performance) / The Treefort Music Festival / March 2022

Stockton, California / Phantom Kangaroo / April 2021

Alpha Tango Monorail / F(r)iction / December 2019

Kim Kardashian / F(r)iction / November 2019

The Red Ghost / The Other Stories Podcast / May 2019

In Search of High Density Ultraweirdness: On the Path to Peak Absurdity at the 2016 Republican National Convention / Medium / October 2016

Static (live performance) / Quiet Lightning Reading Series / January 2014

Oh, So You’re an Actor? / MAYDAY Magazine / October 2012

Now That’s What I Call Love / PANK Magazine / July 2011

The Mad Scientists at Prom / Miracle Monocle / April 2011

Go for it, Alfonso! / Storychord / February 2011

The Ghost Lives / The Montreal Review / January 2011

Robot Love: Tokyo Song (live performance) / The Noah Garabedian Sextet / April 2010

Somewhere South of So What / Poetry Quarterly / October 2010

Selected Podcast Episodes