Renee Ashley

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Ringwood, NJ
New Jersey US

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Anthologies:
The Book of Worst Meals: 25 Authors Write about Terrible Culinary Experiences (Serving House Books, 2010)
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Poets on Prozac: Essays on Psychiatric Treatment and the Creative Process (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008)
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Writers on the Job: Tales of the Non-Writing Life (Hopewell Publications, 2008)
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Writers on the Job (Web del Sol Online Chapbooks, 2005)
Journals:
AWP Chronicle
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Fulcrum
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IthacaLit
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Solo
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Wild River Review

Fiction

Anthologies:
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Crossing Press, 1994)
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What's a Nice Girl Like You...? (Crossing Press, 1992)
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Touching Fire: Erotic Writings by Women (Carroll & Graf, 1989)
Book:
Someplace Like This (Permanent Press, 2003)

Poetry

Anthologies:
Sunken Garden Poetry (Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
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Letters to the World (Red Hen Press, 2008)
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Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years (Notre Dame University Press, 2006)
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The Poets of New Jersey: From Colonial to Contemporary (Jersey Shore Publications, 2005)
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The Breath of Parted Lips, Vol 2 (CavanKerry Press, 2004)
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Pushcart Prize XXIV (Pushcart Press, 1999)
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Prayers to Protest: Poems that Center and Bless Us (Puddinghouse Press, 1998)
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Dog Music (St. Martin's Press, 1996)
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Writing Poems (Harper Collins, 1995)
Books:
The Various Reasons of Light (Avocet Press, 2018)
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The View from the Body (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
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Because I Am the Shore I Want to Be the Sea (Subito Press, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2013)
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The Verbs of Desiring (New American Press, 2010)
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Basic Heart, Winner of the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press, 2009)
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The Revisionist's Dream (Avocet Press, 2001)
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Chapbook:
The Museum of Lost Wings (Hill-Stead Museum, 2006)
Journals:
5 A.M.
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American Literary Review
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American Voice
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American Writing
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Androgyne
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Barrow Street
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California Quarterly
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California State Poetry Quarterly
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Caprice
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Chelsea
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Clay Palm Review
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Columbia Poetry Review
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Connecticut Review
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Connotation Press
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Crab Orchard Review
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Creeping Bent
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Diner
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Edison Literary Review
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Field
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Heliotrope
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Iodine Poetry Journal
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Iris
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Kenyon Review
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Lips
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Mad Poets Review
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Many Mountains Moving
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Margie
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Masthead
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Mead: The Magazine of Literature & Libations
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Mississippi Review
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Nebraska Review
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Negative Capability
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Nightsun
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North Atlantic Review
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Notre Dame Review
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Oxalis Literary Quarterly
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Pif Magazine
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Pivot
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Poetry for the Masses
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Press
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Sacred Fire
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South Coast Poetry Journal
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Swallow's Tale
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Sycamore Review
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The American Voice
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The Drunken Boat
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Vega
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Verse Daily
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Western Humanities Review
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Widener Review
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Wings

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Palo Alto
Raised in: 
Redwood City, CA
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Last update: Aug 24, 2016