A. H. Jerriod Avant

A. H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. A graduate of Jackson State University, he earned MFA degrees from both Spalding University and New York University. He has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program.

Avant has been a resident at the James Castle House and the Vermont Studio Center, received two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation.

His poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Boston Review, Pinwheel, Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Obsidian, and The Yale Review, among others.

Avant is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Rhode Island and serves as a Teaching Fellow in English at Wesleyan University.