Ashley Hajimirsadeghi

Poet

Baltimore, MD
Website: 
ashleyhajimirsadeghi.com
Twitter: 
@ashleynassarine

Author's Bio

Ashley Hajimirsadeghi is an award winning writer from Baltimore, Maryland.

Current and past literary/editorial positions include Poetry Reader @ Mud Season Review, Poetry Reader @ EX/POST Magazine, Editorial Intern @ Cleaver Magazine, Editorial Intern @ Sundress Academy for the Arts, Curator & Editor of Sundress Publications' Lyric Essentials Series, Editor-in-Chief of Juven Press, Programs Assistant @ New Perspectives Theatre Company, Associate Managing Editor @ Mud Season Review, and Playwriting/Directing Apprentice @ New Perspectives Theatre Company. 

Writers Retreats: 
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
2019 Lyric Prose Plus (Port Yonder Press, 2019)
Chapbooks:
cartography of trauma (Dancing Girl Press, 2021)
,
cinephile (Ghost City Press, 2021)
Journals:
After the Pause
,
Anti-Heroin Chic
,
Apeiron Review
,
Barren Magazine
,
Barzakh
,
Bitchin' Kitsch
,
Blue Lake Review
,
Cahoodaloodaling
,
Decomp
,
Dialogist
,
Dream Pop Press
,
Eastern Iowa Review
,
Emerge Literary Journal
,
Ghost City Review
,
Indigo Lit
,
Inklette
,
Into the Void
,
Mud Season Review
,
Nine Muses Poetry
,
No Contact
,
Rust + Moth
,
Sheila-Na-Gig
,
Shore Poetry
,
Snapdragon
,
Up the Staircase Quarterly
,
Yes, Poetry
Prizes won: 

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: National Gold Medal, Special Achievement: Civic Expression Award, National Silver Medal (all for poetry). 3x Best of the Net Nominee (2018-2020). Full scholarship for the International Writing Program's Summer Institute (2019). Brooklyn Poets Fellow (Fall 2019). Open Road Scholar at the Desert Nights Writers Conference. Semifinalist for the ST Writer's Workshop. 3x Scholarship Recipient from The Shipman Agency. Scholarship Recipient from Kundiman. Recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship in Bangla (2021). 2x Scholarship Recipient from The Speakeasy Project. Creative Writing Fellow with COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective (2021). Selected for Flypaper Lit's Flight School (2021). 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Iranian American
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Baltimore, MD
Maryland
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Last update: Jul 23, 2021