Renee AshleyRenée Ashley's hybrid collection of essays, Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life, was published in 2019, as was RUINED TRAVELER (Otis Books Seismicity Editions). She is also the author of a novel and six previous volumes of poetry: most reently, THE VIEW FROM THE BODY (Black Lawrence Press) and BECAUSE I AM THE SHORE I WANT TO BE THE SEA (Subito Book Prize, University of Colorado-Boulder). A portion of her poem, First Book of the Moon, is included in a permanent installation by the Artist Larry Kirkland in Penn Station, NYC. She has received fellowships in both poetry and prose from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Ashley lives in northern New Jersey and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's two low-residency graduate programs, the MFA in Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators. Read More Read Less