my aim is to put down on paper what i see and what i feel in the best and simplest way.
ernest hemingway
bio
Ashley is a service academy graduate, award-winning writer, and military veteran who has deployed all over the world in support of various armed conflicts. She holds an MFA from Cornell University, where she was also a lecturer in the humanities, and was selected as a 2022 - 2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her fiction, creative nonfiction, and lyric essays have appeared widely both in print and online. Ashley’s debut novel Land of Enchantment is forthcoming with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Ashley splits her time between California, Colorado, and New York.
@ashleyehand