Ashley Capps

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, and the National Endowment for the Arts, 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. She is at work on a second collection of poems entitled The FOReSt. With the poet Allison Titus, Ashley is co-editing THE NEW SENT(I)ENCE, an animal poetry anthology forthcoming from Trinity University Press in 2025. She lives in the Blue Ridge mountains in North Carolina.