Amish Trivedi at Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series

Adam Vines at Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series

Adam Clay, Ada Limón and Michael Robins at Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series

Peter LaBerge at Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series

Sarah Blake at Indian Springs School Visiting Writers Series

Ashley M Jones at Vestavia Library in the Forest’s Treehouse Reading Series

Ashley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU), where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. She served as Official Poet for the City of Sunrise, Florida’s Little Free Libraries Initiative from 2013-2015, and her work was recognized in the 2014 Poets and Writers Maureen Egen Writer’s Exchange Contest and the 2015 Academy of American Poets Contest at FIU. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a 2015 B-Metro Magazine Fusion Award. She was an editor of PANK Magazine. Her debut poetry collection, Magic City Gospel, was published by Hub City Press in January 2017, and it won the silver medal in poetry in the 2017 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Her second book, dark // thing, won the 2018 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry from Pleiades Press. She currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama, where she is founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival, a board member of the Alabama Writers’ Conclave, co-coordinator of the Nitty Gritty Magic City Reading Series, and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

Ashley M Jones at Treehouse Reading Series

Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Alabama with her partner and three children. Stories to Read Aloud to Your Fetus, a hybrid collection, is available from Finishing Line Press. Alina’s first fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the 2016 Brighthorse Books Prize.

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