Ashton Young

Ashley Young (Ashton; she/they) is a Black Queer writer, poet, educator, artist & spiritual practitioner. She is a 2010 Voices of Our Nation's Foundation Poetry Fellow and a 2011/2016 Lambda Literary Nonfiction Fellow. Her work has been published in Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion (Seal Press), All About Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color (University of Wisconsin Press) and Lambda Literary Award winning Glitter and Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (Portland Studio). Ashton lives in their heart town of New Orleans with her sweet service dog, Truce.