Ashley Mace Havird

Ashley Mace Havird’s book of poems, The Garden of the Fugitives, won the 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize and will be published by the Texas Review Press in 2014. Her chapbook, Dirt Eaters (2009), won the South Carolina Poetry Initiative Series Prize; and a second chapbook, Sleeping with Animals (2013), was published by Yellow Flag Press. Her poems and short stories have appeared in many journals including Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The Texas Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2002 she was awarded a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. She lives with her husband, the poet David Havird, in Shreveport, Louisiana.