Jones,+Nalini

Biographical Information:
Dates: 1971- Dates in Ridgefield: 1985-2003

fiction, short stories educator

Nalini Jones moved with her family to Ridgefield in 1985. A graduate of Amherst, she got an M.F.A. degree in writing at Columbia University in 2001. While in high school, she wrote a column, as well as features, for //The Ridgefield Press//. After college she taught at the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut, and later, at the Alternative High School in Ridgefield as a substitute teacher. More recently she taught fiction at Fairfield University and creative writing at the 92nd Street Y. She is a Stamford Calderwood Fellow of the MacDonald Colony. Her debut collection of fictional stories, //What You Call Winter,// published in 2007, draws on her experiences visiting relatives in India; the stories in the book are linked to a fictional Catholic suburb of Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay). The book received glowing notices–of it, //Elle Magazine// wrote, “[A] momentous debut, a bewitching exploration of what it means to belong, anywhere.”

//What You Call Winter //, 2007
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--Sources: //Ridgefield Press// feature, September 2, 2007; [|www.nalinijones.com] ; [|www.amazon.com]