April J. Asbury is a writer in southwest Virginia who believes in building creative community. She teaches English at Radford University. She earned an M.F.A from Spalding University and an M.A. from Hollins University.
As a co-founder of the Highlander Literary Festival, she brought multiple authors to the Radford community, including Nikki Giovanni, Diane Gilliam, Bill Brown, George Ella Lyon, Kirby Gann, Crystal Wilkinson, and many others.
She teaches classes in creative, academic, and professional writing, as well as Romantic literature, 18th-century literature, Renaissance drama, medieval literature, the work of Dante Alighieri, Appalachian literature, and folk and fairy tales.
April J. Asbury’s work has appeared in Artemis, Still: The Journal, The Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and other publications. She is a member of Poets & Writers and available for workshops, speaking engagements, and readings.
Her poetry chapbook, Woman with Crows, is available from Finishing Line Press.
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