Kellam Ayres

Kellam Ayres is a poet whose debut collection, In the Cathedral of My Undoing, was chosen by Gary Soto for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize and published by Gunpowder Press. The book was also a finalist for the New England Book Awards and the Vermont Book Awards. Ayres's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, New England Review, Guernica, and other journals. Ayres works as a librarian at Middlebury College and lives in rural Vermont. Ayres holds an MA in English from the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English and an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Ayres has received support from the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Studio Center.