Shane Jones (born 1980, February 22) grew up in Albany, New York. He attended college in Buffalo, New York, where he studied poetry, and published his first chapbook of poems, Maybe Tomorrow, at the age of twenty-one. After moving back to Albany five years later, he took a job at a local bookstore and wrote his first novel, Light Boxes, while living in his parent's basement. Light Boxes was published by PGP in a print run of 500 copies in 2009. The novel was reviewed widely, the film option purchased by Spike Jonze (Where The Wild Things Are, Adaptation), and was soon represented by William Morris Endeavor and sold to Penguin Books in the US and Hamish Hamilton in the UK, for reissue in 2010. Translations of Light Boxes are forthcoming in: Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, Taiwan, Portugal, and Korea. Shane is also the author of The Failure Six (Fugue State Press), and a book of poems A Cake Appeared (Scrambler Books). He currently lives in upstate New York.

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