Anita at Nanny Goat Beach on Sapelo Island, GA
Anita Gail Jones is a visual artist, professional storyteller and writer, born and raised in Albany, Georgia and lives in Northern California.
Anita’s debut novel, The Peach Seed, set in southwest Georgia, was a 2021 Top Ten Finalist in the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Retha Powers at Henry Holt & Company acquired World rights from Steve Ross at Steve Ross Agency in a two-book deal.
Anita and her husband, Rob Roehrick, founded Gaines-Jones Scholars, a public charity awarding need-based college scholarships to Black students in southwest Georgia and the San Francisco Bay Area in memory of her mother, sister, and father.
Literary representation: Steve Ross, Steve Ross Agency.
Order The Peach Seed Paperback
Also available:
Hardcover, Ebook &
Audiobook (Narrated by Anita)
Henry Holt & Company (August, 2023)
“The Peach Seed is propulsive, yet thoughtful; sweeping but intricate; a tribute to the African American experience that captures its vastness and depth. Jones is an indispensable addition to the canon of Southern literature.“
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, award-winning author of The Revisioners and On the Rooftop
Cinematic, ensemble period piece book trailer that the creators made look effortless. We’re book trailer makers ourselves and even we don’t know how they pulled this off so well. Serious respect to author Anita Gail Jones and her team.
Film-14.com, The Ten Best Book Trailers of 2023
Thank you Savannah State University Honors Program for hosting my Author Talk on The Peach Seed, storytelling and more during the Savannah Black Heritage Festival, and to Keleigh Arrington for creating this wonderful video from the event!
Book Club Corner
The Peach Seed Makes the 12th Annual Crooks Corner Book Prize Longlist
The Crooks Corner Book Prize is awarded to the best debut novel set in the American South. Read More
Read Anita’s Mini-Essay in
Poets & Writers Magazine
In this online exclusive Poets & Writers asks authors to share books, art, music, writing prompts, films—anything and everything—that has inspired them in their writing.
They see this as a place for writers to turn to for ideas that will help feed their creative process. You can read my essay here.
Recent News
New Poem: An Enslaved Girl is Above All Else Human
Sharing a new poem inspired by research into 1829 Georgia and the brutalities of enslavement period. Uplifting Harriet Jacobs and David Walker.
📣 Spreading Good News!! Gaines-Jones Scholars | Anita’s Family Charity
Hi Reader, Coming to you wearing my Executive Director hat, for the 501(c)(3) public charity my husband, Rob, and I created, which many of you may not …
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