Spencer Jones is an MFA candidate in UI's Nonfiction Writing Program. Her essay "On Sex and Grammar" won Porter House Review's 2021 Editor's Prize for Nonfiction. Her essay "Cease and Desist" is forthcoming (2022) in Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith. 

Before coming to the University of Iowa, Spencer taught seven years of high school History, English, and Theology at Catholic and Episcopal schools in Boston and Greenville, SC. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University and a B.A. in Sociology and Education from Swarthmore College. Spencer currently serves as an instructor in the Rhetoric Department at the University of Iowa.