Ava Leavell Haymon

Ava Leavell Haymon
reading at the Arts Club of Washington, D.C. 2014
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Poet Laureate of Louisiana
Website
avahaymon.com

Ava Leavell Haymon is the 2013–2015 Poet Laureate of Louisiana.^[1]

Career

She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Eldest Daughter, Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread, Kitchen Heat and The Strict Economy of Fire, along with five chapbooks.

She is the editor of the forthcoming Louisiana State University Press, Barataria Poetry Series (Spring 2014) and has been awarded the Louisiana Literature Prize for poetry in 2003,^[2][3] the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award for 2010,^[4] the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2011 Award in Poetry^[5] and has taught as an Artist in the Schools for a number of years.

Her third book, Why The House Was Made Of Gingerbread, was chosen as one of the top ten books of 2010 by Women’s Voices for Change.^[6]

Ava’s work has appeared in Northwest Review,^[7] Prairie Schooner,^[8] Poetry,^[9] and others.

Selected works

Books

• Eldest Daughter: Poems. LSU Press. 12 August 2013. ISBN 978-0-8071-5339-0.
• Why the House Is Made of Gingerbread: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 1 March 2010. ISBN 978-0-8071-3757-4.
• Kitchen Heat: Poems. LSU Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8071-3172-5.
• The Strict Economy of Fire: Poems. LSU Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8071-2994-4.

Chapbooks

• Why the Groundhog Fears Her Shadow. Greensboro, North Carolina: March Street Press, 1996. ISBN 9781882983148
• Built in Fear of Heat. Troy, Maine: Nightshade Press, 1994. ISBN 9781879205451
• Staving Off Rapture. Chico, California: Flume Press, 1994. ISBN 9780961398491
• A Name Gift for Every Child. Baton Rouge: Mother Daybreak Press, 1991.

References

1. "Our Views: Haymon good pick for job". The Advocate. 2 July 2013. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2013.
2. "Louisiana Literature Prize for Poetry". Retrieved 23 May 2013.
3. "Ava Haymon: About". Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
4. "Books by Series - L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award". Retrieved 23 May 2013.
5. "Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Previous Winners 2010 - 2012". Retrieved 23 May 2013.
6. Women's Voices For Change (10 Dec 2010). "Poetry Friday Special". Retrieved 15 May 2013.
7. Haymon, Ava Leavell (2006). "What the Witch Wanted". Northwest Review. 44 (3): 79–80.
8. Haymon, Ava Leavell (Fall 2003). "Cornucopia". Prairie Schooner. 77 (3).
9. Haymon, Ava Leavell (January 2003). "Ava Leavell Haymon". Poetry. CLXXXI (3).

External links

• Official website
• "Ava Leavell Haymon", Poets & Writers
• "Ava Leavell-Haymon reading". The Knox Writers’ House.
• "Ava Leavell Haymon Reading at Baton Rouge Gallery". batonrougegallery.