Who is this chick?
Kennedi Jones is a passionate Toledoan with a knack for poetry. She attended Toledo School for the Arts, graduating in 2021. Most recently, Kennedi graduated from Bowling Green State University with a focus in Art History and Film Studies. Her research is in the interconnection of painting and cinema of the First World War.
Now Kennedi is pursuing a happier and healthier life.
For the spring semester of 2024, Kennedi studied abroad in Salzburg, Austria. After her semester she spent two and a half months backpacking Europe. She captured this trip on 35mm, which can be found in the photography page.
It was at TSA that her love for writing was nurtured and truly flourished. Throughout her time there, Kennedi took four creative writing classes, participated in a competitive writing organization for middle school students called Power of the Pen, and during her junior year, launched and hosted a podcast for the school, which at the time was called The Oink.
When she isn’t writing, Kennedi enjoys playing music, photography, traveling, and most significantly, learning anything she can get her hands on.
Kennedi’s love for writing began in second grade, when her mother purchased a vintage typewriter at an estate sale. It was at that point Kennedi decided she would one day write a book. At the time, that dream seemed distant, even laughable at such a young age, but Kennedi doesn’t take no for an answer.
Whether it’s driving four hours to see the world’s largest basket, carving watermelons when the store runs out of pumpkins, or pursuing a childhood dream, Kennedi always finds a way to make it possible. Like many creative endeavors, incandescent started as an accident, albeit a beautiful one.
Want to know a secret? Kennedi used to hate poetry. She thought it was pretentious and complex, and therefore, bad. As she began to take writing classes at the beginning of high school her bias began to crumble. She learned how to break apart a poem to better understand it. Surely, there was something more behind these long, flowery words “pretentious” poets wrote. What was it that made poetry such a sophisticated and favored art form? Kennedi wrote poetry for class, and over the course of a year, fell in love with it.
When asked about childhood dreams, Kennedi remembered her determination to write a book. Something sparked within her. For the remaining duration of high school, Kennedi worked tirelessly to tame the chaos within her skull enough to put in on the page. She is overwhelmed with joy to bring you incandescent.
Throughout her time at university, Kennedi continues to write when she’s not working at the Toledo Museum of Art, slinging shots at Rustbelt Coffee, viewing films, attending concerts, or backpacking Europe. Her second publication is a work in progress.
