Ashley Mace Havird

Ashley Mace Havird grew up on a tobacco farm in South Carolina. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Wild Juice, selected for the Southern Messenger Poets Series (LSU Press, 2021) and The Garden of the Fugitives, which won the X. J. Kennedy Prize for Poetry (Texas Review Press, 2014). She has also published two poetry chapbooks, Sleeping with Animals (Yellow Flag Press, 2012) and Dirt Eaters (South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009). Havird’s poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, and American Journal of Poetry. Her novel, Lightningstruck (Mercer University Press, 2016), won the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction. Please visit her at www.ashleymacehavird.com.