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Magic city gospel5/18/2023 ![]() Our journal is interested in your "origins," i.e. Here, we discuss Jones’s origins as a writer, finding a poetic voice, Southern history and her influences, among other topics. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award in 2015. Jones was also a finalist in the Hub City Press New Southern Voices Contest, the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award Contest, and the National Poetry Series. Publisher’s Weekly has called Magic City Gospel “…a terrific debut collection, exhibiting pride of place as well as unflinching honesty about the traumas of its historical legacy…” Edwidge Danticat, in The New Yorker, thought Jones’s “carefully crafted, insightful…elegiac words…” was a salve from tumultuous political discourse. Jones is receiving the praise she deserves. Jones’s unique voice electrifies, teaches, consoles and motivates readers to action. In her newest collection Magic City Gospel, Jones explores the joys, complexities and ghosts of Birmingham, and her experiences as a black woman growing up in Alabama. I’ve known Ashley as a friend and writer for some time, and I’ve always admired her generosity, commitment to the craft, activism, and mesmerizing grasp of language. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An Interview by Jennifer Maritza-McCauley ![]()
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