Ashley Mace Havird has published four poetry collections, including Wild Juice and The Garden of the Fugitives, which won the X. J. Kennedy Prize. Her debut novel, Lightningstruck, won the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction. A new novel, Swimmer, is scheduled for publication with NatureCulture Press in February 2027. Her poems and stories have appeared widely in anthologies and journals such as The Virginia Quarterly Review, Sewanee Review, and The Southern Review.

Schedule

9:00 am to 10:30 am
Outside Museum, West Tent
Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana
Ralph Adamo, Jack B. Bedell, Jordan Biggs, Toby Daspit, Malaika Favorite, Mark Folse, Dennis Formento, John Gery, Ashley Mace Havird, David Havird, Roberta Whitman Hoff, Mason Joiner, Julie Kane, Biljana D. Obradović, Ed Ruzicka, Bessie Senette, Michael S. True, and Andy Young with John P. Travis

10:45 am to 11:30 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Diving Into Nature: An Eco-Poetry Anthology of Louisiana