Ashley Young

Ashley Young (she/they) is a Black Queer Nonbinary writer, poet, tarot reader, and social worker. She is a 2010 Voices of Our Nation’s Foundation Poetry Fellow and a 2011/2016 Lambda Literary Nonfiction Fellow. Her work has been published in three anthologies, Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press) and Lambda Literary Award-winning Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (Portland Studio). She is working on the publication of her poetry collection Black Amphibian & her debut novel Indigo’s Rise. Ashley works as a case manager & spiritual practitioner in her heart town of New Orleans.