The KJB Collective
The KJB Collective is a team of writers, editors, artists, and MFA students who support and manage the Kaylie Jones Books imprint. What you won’t see here are the members of the KJB Collective who volunteer to read the submissions KJB receives throughout the year.
To those who read for KJB, we salute you!
FOUNDER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
KAYLIE JONES
KAYLIE JONES has published seven books, including a memoir, Lies My Mother Never Told Me, and her most recent novel, The Anger Meridian. Her novel A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries was adapted as a Merchant Ivory film in 1998. Jones has been teaching for more than twenty-five years, and is a faculty member in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature program and in Wilkes University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. She is the author of Speak Now and the editor of Long Island Noir. Her newest endeavor is her publishing imprint with Akashic Books, Kaylie Jones Books.
MANAGING EDITOR
KRISTIN IVEY
Kristin Ivey (’21 MFA) is a fiction writer, a poet, and a freelance editor. She is currently serving as the managing editor for Kaylie Jones Books. Her work has been published in Hippocampus Magazine, Spark Anthology IV, the Pennsylvania Bards Review, and through Poetry in Transit. She has spent 23 years teaching writing to middle and high school students in Pennsylvania. When she isn’t working, you can find her playing in the woods with her boxer dog and his dog-agility training pals.
JACKET DESIGNER
KAITLIN MARTIN
Kaitlin Martin is a Chicago-based illustrator and animator. Her work deals with the act of haunting, nature, and the imagery and tropes of gothic fiction. Past works have been featured in Onion City Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Sideshow Gallery, and Grimoire Magazine. Her work can be found here.
RENETTE ZIMMERLY - JACKET DESIGNER
RENETTE ZIMMERLY
Renette Zimmerly is an award-winning art director and graphic designer. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.