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
Taut
Furious Flower Poetry Center and Madison Art Collection, 2025
Snowberry Clearwing
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2025
Lucky Guess
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2025
Five little seeds in the palm of your hand
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024
if there were words enough for what this was...
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024
Boiling With It
Virginia Literary Review, 2024
Asterion, Son of Minos
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2024
from one creature to another
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2023
Midas is Gone
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2023
Chase
Iris Literature and Arts Magazine, 2022
Milton's "Lycidas": Elevating the Human Condition
James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal, 2024
