Nalini Jones is the author of a story collection, What You Call Winter, and a forthcoming novel, The Unbroken Coast (Knopf 2025). She has been awarded an O. Henry Prize, Pushcart Prize, and literature fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Past teaching appointments have been Columbia University, Williams College, Yale University, and the Arcadia Center for Hellenic, Mediterranean, and Balkan Studies in Greece. In September 2024, she joins the English department of Fairfield University. A longtime coordinator of live music events, she has worked on events such as the Newport Folk Festival (1985-2009, Associate Producer 2004-2009); the JVC Jazz Festival in Newport and New York, Music Rising (NFL Pre-Game and Halftime show) at the New Orleans Superdome, and the Closing Night New Orleans Ball at the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland, both in 2006. That year, she was also artistic coordinator of Route 57, A Festival of American Roots Music at Carnegie Hall. She continues to serve as backstage manager at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and the Saratoga Jazz Festival.