Libby Falk Jones is a life-long writer of poems, essays, and stories. She has authored or co-authored five books of poems, and her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 30 journals and anthologies. She’s a past president of Kentucky State Poetry Society and a member of Bluegrass Writers Studio (EKU). Winner of the 2020 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize from The Heartland Review, she served as judge of the 2025 contest.
An Emerita Professor of English at Berea College, she’s taught a wide range of courses in writing and literature, including creative, contemplative, experimental, and nature writing.
Co-director of Coming of Age, a grant-funded writing project for Kentucky women over 60, she serves as a writing coach at Western Kentucky University’s Mountain Workshops (photojournalism), as creative writing instructor at New Opportunity School for Women, and as Writer Workshops Coordinator for Shadelandhouse Modern Press.

Enchanting the Ordinary
In Enchanting the Ordinary, author and educator Libby Falk Jones combines her tandem pursuits of poetry and photography, pairing poem and image on facing pages to create a “conversation.” Not ekphrastic--the poems are not written in response to the photographs--nor conventionally illustrated--the photographs are not intended to convey the same subject matter as the words--these twinnings encourage the reader/viewer to combine “separate energies to bring into being a new creation” in order to foster “awareness of the beauty and mystery of the ordinary, to be present to inner and outer worlds, to grow.”