Visiting Writer, Cherie Jones will give a featured reading at Vermont Studio Center in the Red Mill Building on February 12, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET. This event is free and open to the public.

Cherie Jones is a Barbadian novelist and short story writer whose short fiction credits include Reflex Fiction, The Feminist Wire, PANK, Eclectica, and BBC Radio 4. She is a former fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and the International Writers Programme of the University of Iowa. She is an alum of the MA Writing Programme at Sheffield Hallam University where she was awarded the Archie Markham Award and the AM Heath Prize. Cherie completed her PhD at the University of Exeter where her research centered on the poetics of violence against women in contemporary Anglo-Caribbean literature. Her first novel How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, the OCM BOCAS Prize in 2022 and the Internationel Literaturpreis Prize in 2023 and was translated into French and German. The French translation of her novel won the Prix Carbet des lycéens 2023. Cherie is at work on her second novel.