Alexandria Jones

Alie Jones is a writer, artist, and Creole mermaid. She is the author of Saltwater Moonshine, a poetry collection that honors her matrilineal Creole heritage through poetry, music, and reflections of love. Alie is passionate about centering our breath work as sacred and hopes to build a legacy of awareness and expression. 

She is the Director and Co-founder of Black Freighter Press, a revolutionary press committed to the exploration of liberation. Co-editor of When We Exhale: An Anthology of Black Women Rooted In Ancestral Medicine. Alie is deeply inspired by scholars like bell hooks, Paolo Freire, June Jordan, and Gloria Anzaldúa. As an educator, she explores the intersections of power, praxis, and healing. Sustaining culture shows up by concerted efforts to maintain cultural beliefs, cultural practices, and heritage conservation. 

Areas of teaching specialization: Creative Writing, Composition studies, poetry, Social Action Writing, Black Feminist theory, community organizing, Fiction writing. Creative nonfiction, and social movements.