Spencer Jones is an MFA candidate in UI's Nonfiction Writing Program. She currently serves as an instructor in the Rhetoric department and as a graduate co-leader in that department's Professional Development Program. She is a member of the Iowa City Chamber Singers. From 2015-2022, Spencer taught History, English, and Theology at Cristo Rey Boston High School in Dorchester, MA and Christ Church Episcopal School in Greenville, SC.

Her writing has appeared in Porter House Review and Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith and is forthcoming in The Other Journal, Arts & Letters, Black Warrior Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.