{"id":10662,"date":"2016-03-30T13:59:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T17:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=10662"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:38","slug":"matt-jones","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/matt-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matt<\/strong> served as a sea-going naval officer from 2002-2010 and spent 2010-2011 in Afghanistan. Coming home, he attended Carleton University where he was the editor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.carleton.ca\/inwords\/index1.html\">In\/Words.<\/a> Encouragement from his professors and fellow students inspired his creative life: he published prose, poetry and began to perform his work live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, Matt spent the fall planning a mixed land-sea exercise for several hundred sailors. Shortly thereafter, he was hired as the Artistic Director for VERSeFest 2014. After that, he participated in the Nijmegen March \u2013 a grueling four-day, 160km rucksack march through the Netherlands: his final military duty before retiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly free to travel, Matt moved to Nicaragua with his partner, where he tutored and wrote, before taking a position teaching at a university in Zhengjiang, China. After a year, he moved to Paris, where he works as the prose editor of the literary magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parislitup.com\/\">Paris Lit Up<\/a>, runs a writing workshop at the iconic Shakespeare and Company and teaches at the French War College. He has recently written a book about drones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19134,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Matt","cu_people_last_name":"Jones","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[26],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-10662","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-alumni"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Prose Editor (Paris Lit Up)","cu_people_degree":"BA (Queen's); MA English (Carleton, 2014)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"matthewjamesjones.com","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26382,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/10662\/revisions\/26382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}