Ashley Blooms

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Ashley Blooms (they/she) is the author of Where I Can’t Follow and Every Bone a Prayer. Learn more at: ashleyblooms.com.  

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Ashley Blooms (they/she) is the author of Where I Can’t Follow, which was a finalist for the Weatherford Award. Their debut novel, Every Bone a Prayer, was long-listed for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. Learn more at: ashleyblooms.com. 

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Ashley Blooms (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. 

critical praise (Every bone a prayer)

“Bears within its pages striking beauty and strangeness in equal measure . . . a book like Every Bone A Prayer exists in the space between author and reader so viscerally that you can almost hear crawdad shells crunch, wood splinter, and bones groan. And its heart? That is threaded carefully through its pages. It reveals itself slowly, within the book’s many layers.” ― NPR

“…evokes the magic of my favorite childhood stories – thrilling, but eerie – but it’s also a painful, beautiful, and necessary examination of trauma and autonomy.” ― Buzzfeed

“A beautifully rendered coming-of-age tale for a wide range of readers.” ― Library Journal

“In this haunting debut novel, Blooms makes a mystical exploration of the hidden power that lies within and the strategies assault survivors can undertake to regain a feeling of ownership over body and mind.” ― Booklist

“An exploration of faith that borders on fanaticism, belief in the unseen wonders of this world, the fear that lives deep in the heart of girls whose innocence is stolen from them, and the resilience built by refusing to be destroyed are all beautifully, heartbreakingly, and magically at work in the brilliant Every Bone a Prayer.” ― Seattle Book Review

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