Ashley 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 also the 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.