Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones is a poet from Birmingham, Alabama. She teaches at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award. Her debut poetry collection, MAGIC CITY GOSPEL (Hub City Press, 2017), won a silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards, and her second collection, dark//thing, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press, and is forthcoming in 2019. She is founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival.
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