A. H. Jerriod Avant

A. H. Jerriod Avant is from Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, he’s earned MFA degrees from Spalding University and New York University. His poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Callaloo, Ecotone, Boston Review, Virginia Quarterly Review & forthcoming from Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. He’s received scholarships from the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference and Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program. A recipient of two Winter Fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Jerriod is currently a PhD English student and instructor of record at the University of Rhode Island.

Instagram/Twitter: @ahjerriodavant

Event: A Poetry Reading