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Renée Ashley
grew up in California and lives in New Jersey. She
is the author of four volumes of poetry:
Salt
(Brittingham
Prize in Poetry, University of Wisconsin Press),
The
Various Reasons of Light
and
The Revisionist's Dream
(Avocet Press); Basic Heart (2008 Winner X. J.
Kennedy Poetry Prize, Texas Review Press), as well as
two
chapbooks,
and a novel,
Someplace Like This (Permanent Press).
A portion of her poem
First Book of the Moon is etched in marble in Penn
Station Terminal in Manhattan, part of a permanent
installation by the artist Larry Kirkland.
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment
for the Arts and the New Jersey
State Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize.
She is on the core faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson
University's low-residency MFA in the Creative Writing
program.
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