Sylvia Jones is an adjunct professor at George Washington University. She also serves as an editor for Black Lawrence Press and a senior reader for Ploughshares. Her first book-Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024) was released last Fall. Dope Callisthenics, her next collection is forthcoming from Relegation Books in the fall of 2026. Sylvia's writing can be found in DIAGRAM, Smartish Pace, the Cortland Review, Shenandoah, R&R Journal, Blackbird, the American Poetry Review, the Hopkins Review, the Poetry Society of New York, and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from American University in Washington D.C. and lives in Baltimore, MD.