Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and teacher whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among others. Ashley’s debut full-length collection, A Family Thing, is published by Redacted Books/ELJ Editions (August 2024). She is also the author of the chapbooks red line (Garden Party Collective, 2024), CHARM(ed) (fifth wheel press, 2024) black has every right to be angry (Alternating Current, 2023) and you were supposed to be a friend (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2020). As cofounder of the Estuary Collective, Ashley strives to provide free to low-cost programming for femme-identifying BIPOC. When Ashley isn’t teaching, working as the Chapbook Editor with Sundress Publications, or coordinating workshops for fifth wheel press, she habitually posts on Twitter and Instagram (@ae_thepoet). She lives on the original land of the Piscataway and Susquehannocks (Baltimore, MD) with her partner and their three cats — despite her not being a cat person. Ashley is Black before she is anything else.
Wanna get in touch? Email me at aetheblkpoet@gmail.com
Ashley Elizabeth 