ASHLEY CAPPS received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and has published a book of poems, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields. The recipient of poetry fellowships from the Iowa Arts Council, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the National Endowment for the Arts, and recent grants from the Culture & Animals Foundation and the North Carolina Arts Council, she works as a writer, editor and researcher for the food and climate justice non-profit A Well-Fed World, and the animal rights non-profit Free from Harm.
An ardent rockhound, lover of field guides, etymology, stars, and microscopes, Ashley curates and creates content around grief, death and dying for the Community Deathcare Network. With the poet Allison Titus, she is co-editing THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE, an animal poetry anthology forthcoming from Trinity University Press in 2026. She lives in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, where she is at work on a second collection of poems entitled The FOReSt.
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