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Haylee Chase

She/Her | writer/reader/dilettante/scholar | VA, United States

Haylee Chase Edwards is a poet, dilettante, and scholar living and learning in the Shenandoah Valley. Her art is centered on blending her academic and worldly interests with creative expressions of her lived experiences. Haylee's poetry has been published in JMU's Iris, the Virginia Literary Review, and the museum catalog Worlds Within and Without: An Exhibition of Contemporary Black Art. She has been writing since she received her first Moleskine, and she doesn't plan to stop anytime soon.

Selected work

Cover of Furious Flower Poetry Center and Madison Art Collection

Taut

Furious Flower Poetry Center and Madison Art Collection, 2025

PoetryGeneral
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Snowberry Clearwing

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2025

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Lucky Guess

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2025

PoetryGeneral
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Five little seeds in the palm of your hand

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

if there were words enough for what this was...

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Virginia Literary Review

Boiling With It

Virginia Literary Review, 2024

PoetryProse Poetry
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Asterion, Son of Minos

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024

PoetryProse Poetry
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

from one creature to another

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2023

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Midas is Gone

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2023

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of Iris Literature and Arts Magazine

Chase

Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2022

PoetryFree Verse
Cover of James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal

Milton's "Lycidas": Elevating the Human Condition

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal, 2024

NonfictionLong ReadAcademic Writing