Hettie Jones

Hettie Jones's seventeen books include How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the "Beat Scene"; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America's 1999 Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin' Mama (Five Women in Black Music); and No Woman, No Cry, a memoir with Bob Marley's widow, Rita. Jones's short prose and poetry have appeared in the Village Voice, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she teaches writing at the New School and the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center.