About

ASHLEY TAYLOR is an American poet and performer who designs student-centered, collaborative writing spaces and performing arts events. Ashley is the author of Metamorphosis of Narcissus, part of a chaplet series by queer and trans poets from Damaged Goods Press, 2019. Their writing has been honored with a 2020 Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and a 2020 Lambda Literary Fellowship Award from Sundress Academy for the Arts. You can find their writing in Tiny Spoon, Yes Poetry, Crab Fat Magazine, Vagabond City, Transom, Peculiar, and Out/Cast.

academia

MFA Spalding University ⋅ 2021

• Creative Writing ⋅ Poetry

• Abroad in Santiago, Chile ⋅ 2019

• Abroad in Kyoto, Japan ⋅ 2018

• Emerging Writer Scholarship

• Student Editor of Good River Review

MA  University of Louisville ⋅ 2018

• English ⋅ Graduate Teaching Assistantship

• Instructor of ENG 101, 102, 202

• Graduate Dean’s Citation Award

• Creative Writing Award for Poetry

• Scholarship Award for Excellence in Creative Writing

• Graduate Editor of Miracle Monocle

BA  University of Louisville ⋅ 2014

• English ⋅ Linguistics Minor

• Poetry Editor of The White Squirrel

• Completed Metro College UPS Program