Tennessee Jones is freelance editorial consultant and former fiction and non-fiction editor at Soft Skull Press. He is the author of the Lambda Award nominated short-story collection Deliver Me From Nowhere, and the recipient of fellowships from the Jacob K. Javits and Christopher Isherwood Foundations. He was the George Bennett Fellow (Writer in Residence) at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University, and a finalist for the 2016 Creative Capital Award in Fiction.