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Ashley Dashdorj Escobar

Collector of memories / Curator of dreams

  • WELCOME
  • Art
  • Publications
  • CV
  • GIGS
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 Education:

2024 Columbia University - MFA in Fiction

2022 Bennington College - Literature, Philosophy, Art

2019-2020 Bard College Berlin - Liberal Arts

Studied in workshops with Edmund Berrigan, Filip Marinovich, Edwin Torres, Michael Dumanis, Douglas Manuel, Kathleen Alcott, Jenny Boully, Manuel Gonzales, Nana Adjei-Brenyah, and Ben Marcus.


Awards:

2024 Changes Book Prize Winner selected by Eileen Myles for GLIB (2025)

2022 Writing Program & Foundation Femme Scholarships, Columbia University

2022 Fulbright University of Glasgow Award Semi-Finalist

2021 Best of the Net Anthology Poetry Nominee, “Childhood Precarity”

2021 Fruit Bat Press Chapbook Contest Finalist, SUPERSTAR

2020 Catherine Morrison Golden '55 P'80 Undergraduate Writing Fellowship in Fiction, Bennington College

2020 Three Days in Cannes Young Filmmaker Recipient

2018-2021 Brockway Faculty Scholarship, Bennington College

2016-2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (gold key in short story, silver keys in photography and poetry, & honorable mentions in flash fiction & poetry)

2015 Junior Authors Short Story Contest Finalist, “With Every Faint Glimmer of Merriment Comes a Tear Drop of Sorrow”


Internships:

2020-2021 Editorial Intern, Roof Books

2019-2020 Gallery Assistant, panke.gallery

2019 Social Media Coordinator, The Market

2019 Digital Marketing, The Exploratorium

2019 Editorial Assistant, 826 Valencia


Professional Experience:

2024-Present Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Juror

2023-Present Volunteer, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church

2022-Present Editorial Assistant, Ecstatic Peace Library

2021-2022 Visual Arts Editor, Silo

2021-2022 Arts & Review Senior Section Editor, The Bennington Beacon

2021-Present Co-Founder & Co-Editor-in-Chief, Wind-up Mice Journal

2021 Instagram Coordinator, Pidgeonholes

2021 On-Campus Reporter

2020 Staff Writer, College Magazine

2019-2022 Editorial Assistant, Bennington Review

2017 Videographer, The Marsh

2017 Production Assistant, Color Factory

2015-2016 Museum Ambassador, deYoung


Exhibitions:

2022 Forever Girl: A Modern Treatise on Girlhood, Wedding World, Miami (Poetry & 16mm Video)

2019 Berlin: A Response to the City, Bard College Berlin (Mixed Media Collage & Video)

2019 Winter Open Studios, Bard College Berlin (Photography, Rubbings, & Video)

2016 End of Summer, The Native Daughter Gallery (Photography)

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