Biography
Ashley Howell Bunn (she/they) completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. Her work has previously appeared in The Colorado Sun, South Broadway Ghost Society, Querencia Press, Mulberry Literary, Tiny Spoon, Champagne Room Journal and others. Her first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing and her second chapbook, Living Amends —coauthored with Alexander Shalom Joseph, is forthcoming through Galileo Press in 2025 . She leads somatic writing workshops and has offered workshops through Sundress Publications, Sims Library of Poetry, and through her own business, Howell and Heal. She was a participant at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2024. She is an adjunct instructor of English at the Community College of Denver and is the Youth Program Coordinator at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. When she isn’t writing, she is practicing yoga, running in the sunshine, playing with her kids, or daydreaming and staring off into space.
