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Jones"> <br><br> <img src="images/clj.jpg" width="150" height="146" alt="Photograph of the author Christopher L. Jones"> </td> <td width="360" valign="top" align="left"> <div style="padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px;" align="justify"> <b>Christopher L. Jones</b> is an author, poet and artist living in Cedar City, Utah, USA. Originally born in Tucson, Arizona and a graduate of New Mexico State University with a degree in Philosophy and Theatre Arts, he has spent over twenty years contributing to the various performing arts groups in his community, mostly working in the areas of lighting and scenic design, sound design, properties design, stage management and producer. <br><br> Currently Christopher is a BFA Theatre Design and Technology student at Southern Utah University where he is working towards becoming a professional scenic and lighting designer as well as educator. <br><br> His work has been described as "masturbating on the world s stage in verse" and "...exactly what is wrong with the average white American male..." Christopher started writing after being introduced to poetry composition as a form of art therapy as a teenager and has not stopped since. <br><br> He was co-founder of Green Thursday Theatre Project in Tucson, Arizona and served as their Technical Director and PSM. He was the Technical Director for three seasons of Old Pueblo Playwrights' New Play Festival. He also worked for six seasons with Arizona Theatre Company in their Administration/Marketing departments. <br><br> Christopher has written over two dozen chapbooks of poetry and his novel, <i>Waterboarded</i>, was recently published by Chipmunka Publishing and the Arts Council England. <br><br> Aside from working with words, he is a single father of one. <br><br> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table> </td> <td valign="bottom"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width=90> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/industrialarts" onmouseover="window.status='Click to friend me on Facebook'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' '; return true;" title="Click here to friend me on Facebook" target="_blank">FACEBOOK</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"width=10> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width=80> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/industrialarts" onmouseover="window.status='Click to follow me on Twitter'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' '; return true;" title="Click here to follow me on Twitter" target="_blank">TWITTER</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"width=20> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width=50> <a href="http://christopherljones.tumblr.com/" onmouseover="window.status='Click to read my Tumblr blog'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' '; return true;" title="Click here to read my Tumblr blog" target="_blank">TUMBLR</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"width=50> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width=95> <a href="http://industrialarts.wordpress.com" onmouseover="window.status='Click to read my WordPress blog'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' '; return true;" title="Click here to read my WordPress blog" target="_blank">WORDPRESS</a> </td> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"width=5> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="10"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <table width=100 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width=40> <a href="http://www.scribd.com/christopher5272" onmouseover="window.status='Click to go to my scribd.com profile'; return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' '; return true;" title="Click here to go to my scribd.com profile" target="_blank">SCRIBD</a> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC"width=60> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CCCCCC" height="40"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td> <table width=528 bgcolor="#CCCCCC" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td bgcolor="#000000" width="250"> <div style="color: #CCCCCC; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8px; padding: 5px;">&copy; 2011 Christopher L. 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