Nalini Jones

Nalini Jones is the author of a story collection, "What You Call Winter". She is the recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship in Fiction as well as a Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Prize. She received a Stanford Calderwood Fellowship from MacDowell, and her work has appeared in "Ploughshares", "One Story" and "Guernica", among others. She has taught creative writing and literature at Yale University and at the Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Mediterranean, and Balkan Studies in Greece, and currently teaches in the Columbia University MFA Writing program. Her credits in music production include Line Producer, From the Big Apple to the Big Easy: The Concert for New Orleans (Madison Square Garden, 2005), Associate Producer, Newport Folk Festival (2004-2007), and Backstage Manager at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (1995-present), among others. She is currently at work on a novel for Knopf.