Ashon Crawley is associate professor of religious studies and African-American and African studies at the University of Virginia and the author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham University Press, 2016) and The Lonely Letters (Duke University Press, 2020). He has been a Yaddo interdisciplinary arts fellow, a MacDowell interdisciplinary arts fellow, a New City Arts Initiative Fellow, and a LIT (Learning It Together) Artist Fellow. His work has been featured at Second Street Gallery, Welcome Gallery, Bridge Projects, and the California African American Museum.
Headshot credit: Benita Mayo, 2021.
