Next Letter in the Mail: Ashley M. Jones

Our next Letter in the Mail is from award-winning poet Ashley M. Jones! Ashley writes to us about s’mores, about what she’s learned from her parents, and about finding and enjoying the sweet moments even amid darkness.

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Ashley M. Jones 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. Her poems and essays appear in or are forthcoming at CNN, 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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Photograph of Ashley M. Jones by BANG IMAGES / Jennifer Alsabrook-Turner.