Still Life in a Hurricane is Bill Jones's third collection of writing and his first containing both poetry and prose. His first collection, the chapbook Swimming at Night, won a Baltimore Artscape Literary Arts Award for Poetry. His second, At Sunset, Facing East, a memoir in poetry, was published by Apprentice House Press in 2016. Over the past thirty years, his writing has appeared in numerous small press magazines and journals across the country, including Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Caesura, Chiron Review, The Comstock Review, Loch Raven Review, Passager, Slant, and many others. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Jane Croghan Jones.