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Holly Goddard Jones

Holly Goddard Jones's stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, EPOCH, and The Southern Review. Her story "Life Expectancy" was selected by Edward P. Jones to be included in New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007. Her work has since appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2008 and New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2008. She received her M.F.A. from Ohio State University and has taught at Denison University and Murray State University. The winner of a 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, she was born and raised in Kentucky, the setting for most of her fiction.


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"Jones writes with grace and ease, the selections adding up to a powerful sum of reflection, loss and regret."


- Publishers Weekly
"The stories from Girl Trouble are poignant and approachable-ripe for any audience. The human touch and prairie isolation of her characters are pitch-perfect. But whether she is discussing Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus in her story 'Parts' or riffing on Plato in 'Allegory of a Cave,' Jones' prose is also sharply intellectual. With a debut as striking as Girl Trouble, Jones could very well join the tradition of America's great Southern writers."


- Las Vegas Weekly
“Holly Goddard Jones is a strikingly gifted young writer, and in her debut collection, Girl Trouble, she turns a clear but compassionate eye to the nuances of small-town life, its secret undercurrents and betrayals. Her characters, blinded by desire or loss or disappointment, can’t see the damage they inflict, or how power, used badly, erodes the bonds of love. Compelling and full of heartache, these stories are so beautifully written you won’t want them to end.”


- Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

"No politician should ever again use the phrase 'The American People' without reading this book, preferably twice, so that they understand at last just who the hell they're talking about. Holly Goddard Jones has a voice as expansive, complex, and beautiful as the country itself."


- Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End
"A grand debut of a writer who is assured, sensitive, and wonderfully skillful. . . . A marvelous work of heartbreaking wisdom."


- Edward P. Jones
“A powerful, resonant short story collection from the uniquely talented Holly Goddard Jones.”


- George Pelecanos