Jerriod Avant – Guest Artist

A. H. Jerriod Avant was born and raised in Longtown, Mississippi. His first book, Muscadine, (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 2024 Mississippi Institute of the Arts and Letters poetry award. Jerriod has received two winter fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and an emerging-artist grant from the St. Botolph Club Foundation of Boston. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Indiana Review, Obsidian, the Yale Review and other journals. A former John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Avant is currently a University of Mississippi visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing.