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About
I either create or curate chaos
Ashley D. Escobar is an award-winning 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 received an MFA in fiction from Columbia University and a liberal arts degree from Bennington College, where she studied “On Human Connection & Solitude” through the lenses of literature, philosophy, and art. She was awarded a Catherine Morrison Golden '55 P'80 Undergraduate Writing Fellowship. Her photography and films capture the beauty within the mundane.
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 zines, We are in the Shop and Wind-up Mice, 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 where she tutors for the New York Public Library and hosts poetry workshops through Wind-up Mice, a literary and art journal she co-founded. She is also an editor for antiphony, volunteers at the Poetry Project, and writes about music for Atwood Magazine.