ABOUT R.L. JONES

R.L. Jones was born and raised in the desert southwest, to an unintended tribe.

He grew up in a distant corner of New Mexico under the shadow of the coal-burning power plants, gritty oil rigs, and uranium mines that drove the local economies of boom and bust. The land itself was his escape. The hills, bluffs, and canyons of the parched scrubby earth became a refuge of solitude, escape, and imagination.

It was a world edging toward insanity. A world crumbling on itself. Cults, mass suicides, fervent religiosity, high-profile abductions, homegrown terrorists, the ever-present threat of communism and nuclear annihilation, the smoldering hornet's nest of the Middle East. All of it playing out to the throbbing disco beat and screeching heavy metal soundtrack of the 70s and 80s and the incessant dispassionate drone of the evening news.

Life has carried him from California to Texas, Georgia, and back again to the desert southwest, and all around the globe.

Through it all, there was China, looming in the background, weaving through his life like a fine silk thread. A place as familiar as it was foreign. 

R.L. Jones now resides in Southern Arizona.