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 and former military officer who spent her twenties working as an aircraft logistician, deploying to Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. 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 and essays have appeared widely both in print and online. Her debut novel Land of Enchantment is forthcoming with Scribner. Ashley divides her time between California, Colorado, and New York.
@ashleyehand