Lisa Ashley

Lisa Ashley, MDiv, (she/her), is a 2021 Pushcart Prize nominee. She descends from survivors of the Armenian Genocide, is a second-wave feminist, and as a chaplain, listened to and supported incarcerated youth for eight years. Her poems have appeared in Amsterdam Quarterly, The Healing Muse, Gyroscope Review, Blue Heron Review, Last Leaves Magazine, Thimble, Snapdragon and other journals. She writes in her log home, navigating her garden with physical limitations, on Bainbridge Island, WA, having found her way there 33 years ago from rural New York by way of Montana and Seattle. She is working on her first manuscript. Lisa holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Montana, and an MDiv from Seattle University.