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Renée Ashley grew up in
California and lives in New Jersey. Her newest book is
Minglements: Prose on Poetry and Life. She is the
author of seven volumes of poetry: Ruined Traveler
(forthcoming from Otis Books/Seismicity Editions), The View from the Body
(Black
Lawrence Press), Because I Am the Shore I Want to
Be the Sea (Subito Press Book Prize), Basic Heart
(X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press), The
Revisionist’s Dream, The Various Reasons of Light
(both Avocet Press), and Salt (Brittingham Prize in
Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press), as well as two
chapbooks, The Verbs of Desiring (new american press
award) and The Museum of Lost Wings (Sunken Garden
Poetry Prize, Hill-Stead
Museum). She has also published a novel,
Someplace Like This (Permanent Press). Her agent is
Laura Langlie.
A portion of her poem
First Book of the Moon is included in a permanent
installation by the artist Larry Kirkland in Penn Station
Terminal in Manhattan.
She has received
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as well as a Pushcart
Prize. She is on the core faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson
University’s low-residency graduate programs, the MFA in
Creative Writing and the MA in Creative Writing and
Literature for Educators.
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