Ravi Howard

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.

Book Tour Dates

February 22, 2007 | 6:30 P.M.
Public Library of Des Moines
Des Moines, Iowa

February 26, 2007 | 7:00 P.M.
Books-A-Million, East Chase
Montgomery, Alabama

February 27, 2007 | 6:30 P.M.
Little Professor Book Center
Homewood, Alabama (Birmingham area)

February 28, 2007 | 7:00 P.M.
Barnes & Noble, Buckhead
Atlanta, Georgia

March 8, 2007 | 6:00 P.M.
Page & Palette
Fairhope, Alabama

March 14, 2007 | 5:00 P.M.
Lemuria Books
Jackson, Mississippi

March 15, 2007 | 5:00 P.M.
Shop on the Corner
Philadelphia, Mississippi

March 20, 2007 | 7:00 P.M.
Mobile Public Library, West Regional Branch
Mobile, Alabama

March 22, 2007 | 4:00 P.M.
Virginia Festival of the Book
MFA Alumni Reading with Laura Dave
University of Virginia Bookstore
400 Emmet Street S
Charlottesville, Virginia

March 24, 2007 | 12:00 P.M.
Virginia Festival of the Book
Panel: New Voices in African American Literature
With Sonnie Beverly, Eugene Williams and Kendra Hamilton
Central JMRL Library
Room: McIntire Room
201 E. Market Street
Charlottesville, Virginia

March 28, 2007 | 5:00 P.M.
Square Books
Oxford, Mississippi

April 21, 2007 | 10:00 A.M.
Originally scheduled for 2:00 P.M., but due to illness of another author, I switched times to the earlier spot.
Alabama Book Festival
Old Alabama Town
Montgomery, Alabama