Ashley Blooms
Official Panelist
2024 Participant · Fiction · Southern · South Arts Fellow

Ashley Blooms
Ashley (they/she) is the author of Where I Can’t Follow, which was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, and was named a Most Anticipated novel by Good Housekeeping, Gizmodo, and Tor.com, among others. Their debut novel, Every Bone a Prayer, was long-listed for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. She’s a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and received their MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow from the University of Mississippi. Their fiction has appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons, among others. Learn more at: ashleyblooms.com.
Book Title(s)
- Where I Can’t Follow: A Novel