Ravi Howard

In high school, I placed in a short story competition sponsored by the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. I won $15 and got my picture in the paper.  Fortune and fame, respectively.  At that point I was hooked.

In the years after, I worked on literary magazines in high school and then graduated to campus publications at Howard University and the University of Virginia MFA program.  While at U.Va., I won the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers in 2001 for a short story rendering of Like Trees, Walking. A recording of the short story is scheduled for broadcast on the NPR series Selected Shorts.   

In addition to fiction, I wrote and produced programming for NFL Films from 2001-2005.  While there I won a Sports Emmy for my work on HBO's Inside the NFL.  I wanted to weld the statue to the hood of my car, but my wife said no.  I still love her anyway.

I grew up in Montgomery and Jackson, Mississippi.  My family hails from Baldwin County and Mobile, Alabama, where I currently reside.