Paul Jones was inducted into the NC State Computer Science Hall of Fame in 2021. His poetry has taken an unusual journey beyond Earth—a manuscript of his poems crashed into the moon's surface in 2019, while another lunar mission with his poems aboard successfully landed in February 2024.

Jones’s recent work has appeared in Rattle, Hudson Review, New Verse Review, Salvation South, Tar River Poetry, and Southern Poetry Review, as well as in anthologies including Best American Erotic Poems (From 1800 to the Present). His first collection, Something Wonderful, was published by Redhawk Publications in 2021, followed by Something Necessary in September 2024.

For more, visit http://smalljones.com or find him on social media as @smalljones.