Ashleigh A. Allen is a graduate of The New School’s MFA program, and she has been teaching, first in New York City and then in Toronto, since 2010. Currently, she is a researcher, instructor, and Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum & Pedagogy at OISE/ University of Toronto. Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in The Malahat Review, PRISM international, the minnesota review, Fourteen Hills, Invisible City, So To Speak Journal, Contemporary Verse 2 and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the 2024 Writers Trust of Canada Bronwen Wallace Award for poetry and was longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize.