Marlet AshleyMarlet Ashley, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., earned an undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Windsor and taught at St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology. Marlet earned an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writng at the University of Windsor, and taught creative writing there as a sessional instructor. After moving to Vancouver, B.C., she became a tenured instructor of literature and composition at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, B.C. Her first novel is The Right Kind of Crazy (2018). Her children's book series includes Revelry on the Estuary-The Interlopers, Trumpeters' Tribulations, Penelope Piper's Great Adventure, Henri Sings the Blues, and A Pirate's Life for Gabby-as well as a children's Christmas book-Must Be Christmas-and Robin and Ruthie Ride the Bus. Marlet is the author of the Canadian edition of Literature and the Writing Process, published by Pearson Prentice Hall in Toronto. Additionally, she is a member of the Federation of BC Writers.

Marlet has been a guest lecturer at Elder College at North Island College. She also conducted workshops for the Comox Valley Writers Society's conference at North Island College in 2018, 2019 and 2020. As one of the three finalists for the 2012 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award, she was also the recipient of an honorable mention in the Lorian Hemmingway Short Story Competition in 2018 and the Writers' Digest Literary Short Fiction Contest in 2020. A contributing member of The Group of Glacier Writers, she has three titles in Re-Collections, a collection of short stories (2021). Her story 'Design' in the RCLAS 2022 Write-On short fiction competition won first place, and she was the fiction judge for the 2023 competition.

Marlet lives in Comox, BC., with her husband, artist Pieter Molenaar.

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