About the Author

Anna Vangala Jones is the author of the short story collection Turmeric & Sugar (Thirty West, 2021). Her writing has been selected for Longform Fiction’s Best of 2018 and has appeared in Wigleaf, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, The Margins at AAWW, Necessary Fiction, and X-R-A-Y, among other places. Find her online at annavangalajones.com

Reviews

“Anna Vangala Jones's elegant prose twines the mundane with the magical, heartache with hope, loss with love. An impressive debut collection by a writer with a clear vision into the human heart.”

—Tananarive Due, American Book Award winner, author of Ghost Summer: Stories.

“Glimmering, heartfelt, and hard-edged stories of the everyday and the
strange—like stepping outside on a cold fall morning and being shocked
awake to the world.”

—Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying

“Anna Vangala Jones' Turmeric & Sugar is a collection of stories that feel like invitations: "Come in, make yourself comfortable, let me show you around." Her gift for getting to the heart of her characters pulls the reader into each world she describes, each whole, beautiful life. In this collection, Jones hasn't just created characters—she has revealed their worlds, their souls, their truths, their stories.”

—Cathy Ulrich, author, Ghosts of You

“The characters in Anna Vangala Jones’s story collection Turmeric & Sugar glide along through unexpected connections, hauntings, lost bodies—whether through death or desertion—all with a delicate feathery grip on the world. Each story is peppered with luxurious details that transport, turning objects into living fleshy things that tether the characters and the reader to the page. These stories stay with you long after they’re read, hovering near, keeping a hold, just like the spirits and souls written about within them.”

—Melissa Ragsly, author of We Know This Will All Disappear