Nath Jones

Biography

Best New American Voices nominee Nath Jones received an MFA in creative writing from Northwestern University. Her publishing credits include PANK Magazine, There Are No Rules, The Battered Suitcase, and Sailing World. Her current e-book series, On Impulse, explores the spectrum of narrative from catharsis to craft. She lives and writes in Chicago.

Smashwords Interview

Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Yes. It was about Strawberry Shortcake. I can still feel that old pulpy paper, the kind with the blue and red lines that help you learn letters. God love the '70s. The whole story was done in Mr. Sketch scented water color markers--hot pink, turquoise, purple.
What is your writing process?
I write constantly.

I am incredibly self-critical. That's a killer for creativity. It took me forever to turn off my internal self-censor and just let the pipes run clean. But I wrote until I overcame that nullifying voice inside.

The stories always take too long. I absolutely haven't the patience to wait for any given piece of work to come to fruition. So I'm always working on lots of stories. If one is dormant, likely another is having some lovely vibrant spring.
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Books

Radar Road: the Best of On Impulse
Series: On Impulse, Book 5. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 38,950. Language: English. Published: September 17, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors, Fiction » Literature » Literary
In a series that begins with the question: what is a book? This is a book. Morgan Sorvillo Kiger takes what the On Impulse series offers and gives us a portion to desire.
Acquainted with Squalor: Short Stories
Series: On Impulse, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 49,130. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors
Fourth in an exploration of narrative from catharsis to craft, the nine stories in Acquainted with Squalor showcase Nath Jones's descriptive literary talent.
Love & Darts
Series: On Impulse, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 48,940. Language: English. Published: July 6, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors, Fiction » Coming of age
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2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Entry of Note Honorable Mention at the 2012 Paris Book Festival You'll be entranced by these twenty-four stories as Nath Jones finds her way into this fun and biting life. She does not shy away from mortality but conducts you from the kaleidoscopic moment when a toddler loses her innocence to the last breath an old man takes in a rowboat at sunrise.
2000 Deciduous Trees: Memories of a Zine
Series: On Impulse, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 40,390. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Mashups, Fiction » Coming of age
2000 Deciduous Trees is an exploration of individual experience selected from Nath Jones’s ‘90s zine, The Skirt. The writing resists losing its balance during a time when gas was cheap and no one drove slowly on the cusp of a new millennium. The voice yearns for change. But nothing can be done in a twenty-something world where one-night stands get forgotten with execution-style murders.
The War is Language: 101 Short Works
Series: On Impulse, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 32,020. Language: English. Published: June 24, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » Female authors, Fiction » Adventure » War & military adventure
Winner of the 2013 Eric Hoffer E-book Fiction Award The War is Language is a destruction of narrative, an experimental collection of flash fiction. These often humorous pieces exist at story's amorphous limit of spoken word and deconstruction. This disordered collection makes a mosaic with cathartic, inflammatory language.