Collector of memories / Curator of dreams
Photo Credit: Kenneth Bachor
About
I either create or curate chaos
Ashley D. Escobar is a writer and filmmaker born and raised in San Francisco. Eileen Myles selected her debut poetry collection GLIB (Changes, 2025) as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner. Her debut poetry chapbook SOMETIMES was published by Invisible Hand Press in 2021. She is a fiction MFA candidate at Columbia University, a co-founder of the art & literary journal Wind-up Mice, and a recent graduate of Bennington College.
Hailed as a literary angel, her words can be found in The London Magazine, The Drift, Hobart, Berlin Lit, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among other publications. While curating readings for The Brooklyn Rail or her zine We are in the Shop, she has also read at events including the New York City Poetry Festival and Eileen Myles’ Pathetic Happening. She has been featured in Cultured Mag as one of Eileen Myles’ picks of “what they can’t stop reading” and runs a virtual diary.
She resides in New York City and seeks teaching artist positions and freelance work involving literary journalism, music criticism, editing, and film. ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚