Sally Ashton

Poet

Los Gatos, CA
California US
Email: 
sally.ashton@sjsu.edu
Website: 
www.sallyashton.com

Author's Bio

Sally Ashton is Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Writing across genres, in collaboration with artists, and specializing in short prose forms, Ashton is the author of five collections. She has taught at San José State University, UC Santa Cruz Extension, and workshops including Disquiet: International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal. She served as Santa Clara County’s Poet Laureate, 2011-2013. Other honors include fellowships from Arts Council Silicon Valley and as a Lucas Artist Fellow at Montalvo Arts Center. She lives in California with her husband.  sallyashton.com

Education: 
Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Dreaming Awake: New Prose Poetry From the US, UK, and Australia. (MadHat Press, 2023)
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Prose Poetry: An Introduction, Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton, ed. (Princeton University Press, 2020)
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A Cast-iron Aeoroplane that Actually Flies: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poems (MadHat Press, 2019)
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They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, Assistant Editor (Black Lawrence Press, 2018)
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99 Poems for the 99 Percent (99: The Press, 2014)
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An Introduction to the Prose Poem (Firewheel Editions, 2009)
,
Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes (C&R Press, 2008)
Books:
Listening to Mars (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
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The Behaviour of Clocks (WordFarm, 2019)
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Some Odd Afternoon (BlazeVOX books, 2010)
Chapbooks:
Ner Name Is Juanita, Pushcart nominee (Kore Press, 2009)
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These Metallic Days (Main Street Rag, 2005)
Journals:
Brevity
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Caesura
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Cagibi
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Drunken Boat
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Failbetter.com
,
Hinchas de Poesia
,
Jet Fuel Review
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Linebreak
,
Los Angeles Review of Books
,
Mississippi Review
,
Parthenon West Review
,
Poet Lore
,
Poetry Flash
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Rattle
,
Red Wheelbarrow
,
Salt
,
San Pedro River Review
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Sentence
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Spoon River Poetry Review
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The Inflectionist Review
,
the museum of americana
,
The Wax Paper
,
ZYZZYVA
Prizes won: 

Artist Fellowship in Poetry from Arts Council Silicon Valley, 2004. Montalvo Lucas Artist Fellow. Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, 2011-2013. First Prize Fish Flash Fiction, 2014. Her prose poem "4.6 Billion Years," selected to go to the Moon, 2024, with the Lunar Codex Project.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Portland, OR
Oregon
Raised in: 
Silicon Valley, CA
California
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Last update: Jan 24, 2024