Stephanie Jones (she/her) is a senior writer for DownBeat Magazine and a widely published poet based in New York.

 

Her byline appears in The New York Times, HuffPost, NPR, The Detroit Free Press, NAfME’s Teaching Music, M³ Magazine & elsewhere. Her poetry appears in Four Tulips, New Feathers Anthology, Nulla, Querencia Press, Crow & Cross Keys, t’ART, 

Orchards Poetry Journal, Eye to the Telescope, Entre: Magazine of the Arts, Pictura Journal, Troublemaker Firestarter, Encyclopedia Prismatica, Scribeworth, The Santa Fe Literary Review, Pine Hills Review, Cosmic Daffodil & elsewhere, and as a commission for Blue Note Records. She is not a critic and does not write reviews. 

 

In 2022, Jazz at Lincoln Center contracted Stephanie as an editorial consultant, then later as copywriter and Playbill editor through the 2023-24 season. She has written liner notes, at the artist’s request, for releases on Blue Note Records, Intakt Records, Candid and Cellar Live, and served as creator and host of “After the Call: The Official Podcast of Hot House Jazz.” In 2016, she became managing editor of New Jersey Teachers Magazine after serving as copy editor. 

 

Stephanie has been invited to join confidential national arts panels as a juror and an artist nominator; she has been tapped as a panelist for music journalism events and a guest speaker at high schools and universities, including Berklee College of Music and The New School, the latter which recruited her in 2019 to teach an interview-driven course in music business. 

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Stephanie graduated from Wellesley College, having majored in English literature. A Phi Beta Kappa and Kaye Scholar, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from The City College of New York, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. Currently, she’s completing a collection of hybrid poems and working on a CNF manuscript at the intersection of arts & language.