Ashley M. Jones

Ashley Michelle Jones is a poet, instructor of creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, the first Black Poet Laureate of Alabama (2022-2026), and the youngest person to hold this position. Her works deal with race and history inspired by Alabama's historical enslavement of Black men and women in the Deep South. She is the author of ‘’Magic City Gospel’’, ‘’dark//thing’’, and ‘’Reparations Now!’’