Ashley Elizabeth

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Baltimore, MD

Maryland US

Email:

aetheblkpoet@gmail.com

Website:

aetheblkpoet.com

Twitter/X:

@ae_thepoet

Author's Bio

Ashley Elizabeth (she/her) is a writing consultant, teacher, and poet. Her works have appeared in SWWIM, Rigorous, and Zoetic Press, among others. Her chapbook, you were supposed to be a friend, is available with Nightingale & Sparrow. Her sophomore collection, black has every right to be angry, is forthing form Alternating Current Press in August 2023. When Ashley isn't serving as assistant editor at Sundress Publications or working as a member of the Estuary Collective, she habitually posts on Twitter and Instagram (@ae_thepoet). She lives in Baltimore, MD with her partner and their cats.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Journals:

Hellebore

Mineral Lit Mag

Rose Water Magazine

Poetry

Book:

A Family Thing (ELJ Publications, 2024)

Chapbooks:

CHARM(ed) (Fifth Wheel Press, 2024)

black has every right to be angry (Alternating Current Press, 2023)

you were supposed to be a friend (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2020)

Journals:

Bonnie's Crew

Communicators League

Damaged Goods

Memoir Mixtapes

Rigorous

Santa Fe Writers Project

SWWIM Every Day

What Rough Beast

Listen

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Nikki Giovanni, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Amiri Baraka, Andrea Gibson

What I'm reading now:

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

African American, BIPOC, Black, Feminist, LGBTQ

Prefers to work with:

Adults, At Risk Youth, Children, LGBTQ, Teachers, Teenagers

Fluent in:

English, French

Born in:

Baltimore, MD

Maryland

Raised in:

Baltimore, MD

Maryland

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Last update: Jan 05, 2024