ASHLEY MACE HAVIRD
715 Elmwood Street
Shreveport, LA 71104
(318) 426-2696/amhavird@gmail.com
http://www.ashleymacehavird.com
Education
MA in English, Emphasis in Creative Writing, University of Florida, 1978.
BA in English, University of South Carolina, 1975.
Grants, Awards, Fellowships, Residencies
Poet Laureate of Caddo Parish, 2018-2021.
Writer’s Residency, Kallenberg Artist’s Tower, Shreveport, Louisiana, 2020.
QuaranTime Exhibit, Shreveport Artspace, Viewer’s Choice, Literary ($500)
Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) Artist Fellowship in Literature (Poetry), 2018, 2007, 2000 ($2500).
National Award: Mary Jane Malone Lecture Series, Caddo Magnet High School, Shreveport, October 2017. Both novel and poetry were school-wide reads.
Chautauqua Institution, NY, Writer’s Residency, July 2017.
Travel Grants ($1000), Shreveport Regional Arts Council, 2016, 2017.
Literary Winner, Shreveport Regional Arts Council Critical Mass 4, for novel, Lightningstruck, 2016 ($2000).
Winner, Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, for Lightningstruck, 2015.
Finalist, Leapfrog Fiction Contest, for novel, An Old Horse Named Troy (renamed Lightningstruck),
June 2014.
Steelville Arts Council Writer’s Residency (Poetry), Steelville, Missouri, June 2014.
- J. Kennedy Prize for Full Poetry Collection, Texas Review Press, 2013.
South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Award, 2008.
Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2002.
Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Poetry), 2002 ($5000).
Louisiana Division of the Arts Professional Development Grant in Literature (Poetry), 1999-2000 ($500).
First Place award, Panacea poetry competition, Shreveport Regional Arts Council, 2004 ($750).
Books (novel)
Lightningstruck, 2015 Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, Mercer University Press, 2016. Historical Novel
Society Editor’s Choice.
Books (poetry collections)
Wild Juice (Southern Messenger Poets Series), LSU Press, 2021.
The Garden of the Fugitives, 2013 X. J. Kennedy Prize, Texas Review Press, 2014.
Sleeping with Animals (chapbook), Yellow Flag Press, 2013.
Dirt Eaters (chapbook), South Carolina Poetry Initiative Prize, Stepping Stones Press, 2009.
Anthologies (poems)
“The Dogs of Athens,” “Temple of the Olympian Zeus,” “Second Story,” “Last Judgment,” Mediterranean Poetry (online) Oct. 17, 2017.
“The Harvest,” Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse, ed. Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, Lost Horse Press, 2017.
“At Stonewall” and “Lunar Eclipse,” Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, ed. Daniel Cross Turner and
William Wright, U of South Carolina Press, 2016.
“Migrant Worker,” “Sleeping with Animals,” “Mosaic,” and “Artemis,” Mediterranean Poetry (online)
Oct. 20, 2015.
“Dirt Eaters” and “Sister Josephine Tells Your Fortune,” Vision/Verse 2009-2013, An Anthology of Poetry from the Vision/Verse Art and Poetry Exhibits, ed. J. Bruce Fuller and Erica McCreedy,
Yellow Flag Press, 2013.
“Dirt Eaters,” “Sideshow,” “Resurrection: Ivorybill,” The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. IV: Louisiana,
- William Wright, Texas Review Press, 2011.
“Mosaic,” Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places, ed. Maureen Tolman Flannery, John Gordon Burke,
2000.
Journals
- Poems
“Bone Pit,” and “Waterline,” Literary Matters (forthcoming).
“Beach Music,” LEON Literary Review (forthcoming).
“Habitat” and “Skull Mount,” Literary Matters, 13:1 (2020).
“Diving before Dawn,” Chautauqua Literary Journal, 17 (2020).
“Turtle and Snake,” Literary Matters, 12:2 (2020).
“Ghost Net,” “Golden Dawn,” and “Tour of Grief,” Cold Mountain Review (Fall/Winter 2019).
“Dementia: American Pickers” and “Suitcase,” Literary Matters, 12:1 (2019).
“Advent,” “Earth Day, and “The Hound,” American Journal of Poetry, 7 (July 2019).
“Strays,” Image, 101 (Summer 2019).
“Babyland,” Chautauqua Literary Journal, 16 (2019).
“First Year,” The Sewanee Review, 127: 4 (Fall 2018).
“Gone to Wild” (as “April Comes to Shreveport”) Nola Diaspora, 8:2 (2018)
“Perseids,” Fleur de Lit 1:1 (2017).
“Late for Reading” and “Fifty,” Crab Orchard Review 21: 1-2 (2017).
“The Gardener,” Southern Humanities Review 50:1-2 (2016).
“Fixing Junior,” South Carolina Review, 48: 1 (Fall 2015).
“Artemis,” Lowestoft Chronicle, 22 (Summer 2015).
“The Lost Boys,” Verse Daily, “Poem for Friday,” Jan. 23, 2015.
“Migrant Worker,” Cumberland River Review, 4:1 (Spring 2015).
“Proof,” Cumberland River Review, 3:4 (Winter 2014).
“Daughter, 14, with Scissors,” Shenandoah (Spring 2014).
“The Harvest” and “Feeding with the Whale Sharks,” Saranac Review (Fall 2013).
“Second Story” and “Temple of the Olympian Zeus,” Illuminations (Summer 2013).
“Thanksgiving,” The Cortland Review, 57 (Oct. 2012).
“Pollard’s Rock” and “Hurricane, Cayman Brac,” Town Creek Poetry (Spring 2012).
“The Garden of the Fugitives,” WomenArts Quarterly Journal (Fall 2011).
“Restitution: Swallowtails,” The Texas Review (Fall/Winter 2011).
“Resurrection: Ivorybill,” Southern Humanities Review (Fall 2009).
“Sleeping with Animals,” Tar River Poetry (Spring 2009).
“The Legend of Petit Jean,” “The Trip,” “Pan’s Shadow,” Yemassee (Spring 2009).
“Dirt Eaters,” Shenandoah (Spring 2007).
“Daughter,” The Chattahoochee Review (Summer 2006).
“Daphne,” Southern Humanities Review (Fall 2006).
“Cleaning the Garage,” New Delta Review (Summer 2006).
“The Feast of Snails,” Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (Winter 2006).
“Ants in August,” Southern Poetry Review (Spring 2005).
“On Cayman Brac,” Sow’s Ear Poetry Review (Spring 2005).
“Persephone’s Crown,” Iris (Fall/Winter 2004).
“Lunar Eclipse,” “Ice Storm,” and “1939: His Adoptive Mother,” Bayou (2002).
“Sideshow,” The Southern Review (Summer 2002).
“Yellow Dog,” Slant (Summer 2002).
“Inheritance,” Midwest Poetry Review (Spring 2002).
“Decoration,” The Texas Review (Spring/Summer 2000).
“The Field,” The Texas Review (Spring/Summer 1999).
“At Stonewall,” “Housecleaning,” and “Family Life, Louisiana,” Louisiana English Journal (1999).
“When Time Stands Still,” The Texas Review (Spring/Summer 1997).
“Rapture,” The Christian Century (April 2, 1997).
“Hand Knit,” Hodge Podge Poetry (Summer 1996).
“Carnival,” “Vernix,” “Dead Wood,” “Lifeguard,” and “Swamp,” Louisiana English Journal (1996).
“November Dusk” and “Firefly,” The Kerf (May 1996).
“Jeté,” Visions International (1995)
“Walking in the Woods after Granddaddy’s Funeral,” The Kerf (May 1995).
“Wisteria,” First Things (March 1995).
“The Victorious Ones,” First Things (Aug./Sept. 1994).
“Take-off in Atlanta,” First Things (June/July 1994).
- Short Stories
“Band Organ,” Fiction Southeast (August 10, 2020).
“At Aunt Charlotte’s,” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 1987).
“The Burial Ground,” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1982).
“Autumn Rains and Forest Fires,” Sandlapper: The Magazine of South Carolina (October 1975).
- Essays
“Such Houses: A Review of Claudia Emerson’s Final Collections,” Nola Diaspora (2017).
“Center Post: A Tribute to Smith Kirkpatrick,” The Christendom Review 1:1 (2008).
Professional Experience, Teaching
Instructor, Renzi Education and Art Center, 2005 to 2015
Creative Writing, Language Arts
Adjunct Instructor, Centenary College of Louisiana, 2007 and 2001
Advanced Creative Writing, Creative Writing
Instructor, Centenary College of Louisiana Division of Continuing Education, 1997
Writing the Short Story
Instructor, University of Virginia Division of Continuing Education, 1979-1980
Fiction Writing
Advanced Fiction Writing
Southern Women Writers
Instructor, St. Johns River Community College, 1978
American Literature II
Contemporary Literature
Additional Professional Arts-related Experience and Activities
Artbreak Student Arts Festival: Workshops for Young Writers (2018 and 2019)
Lecturer and Juror for the 2019 HARK (History of the Ark-La-Tex) Festival for K-college students.
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival: Two panels, 2018
YWCA: “Outside History: “Celebrating the True Heroines of Our Lives,” Women’s History Month writing workshop (2018)
Chautauqua Institution, NY: “Excavating Home:” Weeklong Prose Workshop, July 2017
Louisiana Book Festival, Baton Rouge: 2017, 2016, 2014
Lightningstruck Book Tour (readings and workshops in LA, SC, GA, NC, MS, TX, NY) 2016-2017
“House of Poetry:” Workshops, Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, TX, Apr. 6, 2016
Workshop and Poetry Reading, Steelville Arts Council, June 2014
Literacy Volunteers: ESL Tutor Centenary College, 1999-2012
Numerous State and Regional Readings (poetry and fiction) sponsored by SRAC, the Louisiana Library Association, Yellow Flag Press, the University of South Carolina, Centenary College, Northwestern, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana State University (Shreveport), and Bossier Parish Community College, 2000-present
Fiction Writing Workshop, Louisiana Library Association Conference, LSUS, March 2008
Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) Artspace Exhibition Committee, 2005-2008
Artspace Faces of Katrina Exhibit, Fall 2006
Artspace Advisory Board, 2005-2006
Literary Curator/Workshop Facilitator, Arts in the Edge (SRAC), March 2003
Highway Haiku Participant, 2003-2005
Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Poetry), July 2002
Fiction Writing Workshop, First Presbyterian Church, Shreveport, Spring 2002
Board of Directors, Algur Meadows Museum, Chair Program Committee, 2011-2016
Writers’ Guild of Acadiana Conference (Poetry Workshop Instructor), Lafayette, LA, 1998
River Cities Writers’ Conference (Fiction Workshop Instructor), Shreveport, LA, October 1996
“Building Literary Bridges” (Poetry Reading/Workshop Instructor), LSU-Alexandria, September 1996
“Building Literary Bridges” (Poetry Reading/Workshop Instructor), LSU-Eunice, April 1996
South Central Conference on Christianity and Literature (Poetry Reading), Centenary College of
Louisiana, Shreveport, LA, 1995
Fiction Reader, The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1979-1986
Selected Media
LPB Art Rocks, Season 6, Episode 3 (Caddo Parish Poet Laureate, Ashley Mace Havird): https://video.lpb.org/video/art-rocks-the-series-603-qxfc7h/
The Forum, Shreveport. 4/23/18. “Writing Her Truth,” by Jessica Carr: https://www.ashleymacehavird.com/post/2018/05/01/writing-her-truth