He is currently an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Florida State University. He has taught creative writing with the Hurston-Wright Foundation, Callaloo, Kimbilio, Minnesota Northwoods, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, Atlanta, and Gravy, and he has recorded commentary and fiction for NPR’s All Things Considered and Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s Thacker Mountain Radio.
His short fiction has appeared in Salon, Massachusetts Review, Silent Beaches, Untold Stories, Saw Palm, and Alabama Noir. Howard has received fellowships and awards from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association,the Hurston-Wright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. A daring and brilliant novel that explores race and class in 1950s America, witnessed through the experiences of Nat King Cole and his driver, Nat Weary. In addition to being selected as a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, Like, Trees, Walking won the Ernest J. Ravi Howard is the author of two novels, Like, Trees, Walking and Driving the King (HarperCollins). The book gives a fictionalized account of a true story, the 1981 lynching.
Awards in the Public Humanities: Research & Engagement (2022-2023) Ravi Howard published his debut novel, Like Trees, Walking in March of 2007.Center for Literary and Comparative Studies.
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