Anna Vangala Jones is a writer, editor, and educator. Her debut short story collection, Turmeric & Sugar, is out from Thirty West Publishing as of May 28, 2021. It is now available for purchase! You can order your copy from Bookshop, Thirty West, or most anywhere books are sold.
Some Advance Praise for Turmeric & Sugar: Stories
Anna Vangala Jones’s elegant prose twines the mundane with the magical, heartache with hope, loss with love. An impressive debut collection by a writer with a clear vision into the human heart.
— Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Ghost Summer: Stories
Glimmering, heartfelt, and hard-edged stories of the everyday and the strange—like stepping outside on a cold fall morning and being shocked awake to the world.
— Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
The characters in Anna Vangala Jones’s story collection, Turmeric & Sugar, glide along through unexpected connections, hauntings, lost bodies—whether through death or desertion—all with a delicate feathery grip on the world. Each story is peppered with luxurious details that transport, turning objects into living fleshy things that tether the characters and the reader to the page. These stories stay with you long after they’re read, hovering near, keeping a hold, just like the spirits and souls written about within them.
— Melissa Ragsly, author of We Know This Will All Disappear
Anna’s writing has been selected for Longform Fiction’s Best of 2018 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net Anthologies. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and interviews have appeared in several publications, such as Craft Literary, Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y, Necessary Fiction, The Rumpus, The Margins at AAWW, Short Story Long, HAD, and Berkeley Fiction Review, among others.
Read some of Anna’s fiction online:
“A Love Story Told in Nine Lives” at Short Story Long
“Maybe Mary” at Terrazzo Editions
“Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods” at Craft Literary
“Our second date was meant to be unconventional and unromantic” at HAD
“Mae and Me” at Doric Literary (first published in Catapult)
“The Haunted House of Things Left Unsaid” at HAD
“The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier” at Short Story Long
“Now it’s nothing but flowers” at Rejection Letters
“Echo” at The ASP Bulletin
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