Ashley Colley

from The Let Down

Ashley Colley‘s poems have appeared in Orion, Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, Southern Indiana Review, Annulet, The Spectacle, and elsewhere. The recipient of a Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant, she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD with a focus on poetry writing from the University of Denver. She was the 2023-2025 Center for the Literary Arts Postdoctoral Fellow at WashU.