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- Ashley M. Jones is the receipent of a Rona Jaffe Award, a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a National Poetry Seris finalist, the winner of the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press, and the 2019 winner of the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award.
- She is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival, board member of the Alabama Writers Cooperative and the Alabama Writers Forum, co-director of PEN Birmingham, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts. She is currently serving as a guest editor for Poetry Magazine.
- Blurbs forthcoming from Patricia Smith and Hanif Abdurraqib
Ashley M. Jones is the 2022-2026 Poet Laureate for the state of Alabama. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University, and she is the author of Magic City Gospel and dark / / thing. Her poetry has earned several awards, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, a Literature Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, the Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She was a finalist for the Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship in 2020. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, POETRY, The Oxford American, Origins Journal, The Quarry by Split This Rock, Obsidian, and many others. She teaches at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, she co-directs PEN Birmingham, and she is the founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival.
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