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About
I either create or curate chaos
Ashley D. Escobar is an award-winning writer, artist, and bartender born and raised in San Francisco.
Eileen Myles selected her debut poetry collection GLIB (Changes, 2025) as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner, and Invisible Hand Press published her debut poetry chapbook SOMETIMES in 2021.
Her work has appeared in places such as the London Magazine, Hobart, and The Drift. She was a finalist for the 2026 National Poetry Series Open Competition.
She co-edits the art and literary journal Wind-up Mice and runs a Substack diary called literary angel.
She holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a liberal arts BA from Bennington College, where she studied “On Human Connection & Solitude” through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and art.