Ashley ElizabethAshley Elizabeth (she/her) is a Pushcart-nominated writer and educator whose work has appeared in SWWIM, Voicemail Poems, Rigorous, and Sage Cigarettes, among several others. A Family Thing is Ashley's debut full-length collection. She is alsothe author of the chapbooks CHARM(ed) (Fifth Wheel Press, 2024), black has every right to be angry (Alternating Current, 2023) and you were supposed to be a friend (Nightingale & Sparrow, 2020). As cofounder of the Estuary Collective, Ashley strives to provide free to low-cost programming for femme-identifying BIPOC. When Ashley isn't teaching or working as the Chapbook Editor with Sundress Publications, she habitually posts on Twitter/X and Instagram @ae_thepoet. She lives in Baltimore, MD with her partner and their cats--despite her not being a cat person. Ashley is Black before she is anything else. Read More Read Less