Stephanie Jones

Stephanie Jones is a writer, editor and educator with a background in feature stories, in-depth interviews, long-form copywriting and editorial management.

She works as features writer for DownBeat Magazine and has contributed interviews, narrative pieces and cover stories to a variety of local and national publications including The Detroit Free Press, NPR Music, JazzTimes, NAfME's Teaching Music Magazine, Hot House Jazz Guide and Jazz Speaks. She does not write reviews or critical essays.

In 2022, Jazz at Lincoln Center contracted Stephanie as brand copywriter and Playbill managing editor. She has written liner notes, at the artist's request, for releases on Blue Note Records, Intakt Records, Cellar Live and Candid. Beginning as copy editor and proofreader, in 2016 she worked her way up to becoming editor of New Jersey Teachers Magazine.

Stephanie graduated from Wellesley College, having majored in English literature. A Phi Beta Kappa and Kaye Scholar, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jazz Performance from The City College of New York, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. In 2019, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music recruited Stephanie to teach an interview-driven undergraduate course in music business. Her poetic works have been published in New Reader Magazine, Poetic Sun, Stone Poetry Quarterly and 50-Word Stories.