Lane Scott Jones is a Nashville-based writer and speaker whose work explores queer Southern identity and the afterlife of inherited beliefs.

Lane’s creative nonfiction has appeared in Longreads, Good Grit, Nashville Scene, and in translation in Internazionale. She has been a featured speaker at events hosted by TEDx, CreativeMornings, Nashville Design Week, and more. As a community arts organizer, Lane has facilitated storytelling events and writing workshops throughout Nashville and co-leads The Porch’s LGBTQ+ Writers Group. 

Lane’s work has been awarded a 2026 South Arts Literary Arts Project Grant, a 2025 ASJA Award for First-Person Essay, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, McCormack (formerly Tin House), Wildacres, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and OZ Arts, where she was a 2025–2026 Art Wire Fellow.

Lane is currently at work on a memoir reimagining gender, sexuality, and desire in the evangelical South. As an emerging memoirist, she is represented by Laura Usselman at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. She also writes on Substack at Second Rodeo, a newsletter about reinvention: dispatches from traveling full-time, leaseless living, and prototyping my life, one experiment at a time.