August Reynolds
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AUGUST REYNOLDS is a poet and short story writer. His work has appeared in Red Cedar Review, Philologia, The Scarlet Leaf Review, In Parentheses, Blue Unicorn, Full House Literary, Red Noise Collective, Wingless Dreamer, New Note, BreadBreak Magazine, Grain, and elsewhere. He is the author of a book of poetry titled “The Freedom of Lavenders” published by Atmosphere Press. In addition to this, he was a co-editor of a poetry collection published by Pocahontas Press which features an original forward by Nikki Giovanni, a volunteer reader for Ariel Publishing, and a co editor for Philologia. August had poems accepted for presentation at the Glossolalia Literary Festival; won the Creative Writing Department award at the 2023 English Undergraduate Excellence Conference for Virginia Tech and was a finalist in 2024; won the 2023 Free Verse Poetry Award in Bacopa Literary Review; was a top-10 finalist for the Nikki Giovanni Steger poetry Prize in 2024; and was long listed for the erbacce-prize 2023 poetry competition—the biggest poetry competition in the world. He graduated from Virginia Tech (VT) in May, 2024 as a triple major studying English Literature, Creative Writing, and Professional & Technical Writing. Currently, he is pursuing his Master’s in English at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA.
