Photo by Leslie June
Ashley Inguanta earned her MFA from the University of Central Florida and has taught several Introduction to Creative Writing courses at the university level. She has also worked as a Creative Writing Instructor at Lakeside Alternative, a mental health facility, and served as the director of Maitland Poets & Writers, where she lead community workshops and hosted a monthly reading series. Last year, Ashley joined SmokeLong Quarterly as Staff Editor, Art Director, and Art Interview Editor. This year, she joined the staff of Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine as Art Director.
Most recently, her photography has appeared in make/shift magazine and Corium. Ashley is also a steady contributing artist for SmokeLong Quarterly, and has photography featured in Redivider, where she was interviewed by Chandra Asar as a spotlight artist. Also, she has a growing portfolio on Vogue Italia’s Web site, Vogue.it.
Her fiction and poetry have appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, PANK, Wigleaf, Gone Lawn, Pindeldyboz, Elephant Journal, Breadcrumb Scabs, and Sweet: A Literary Confection, among other journals. Last year, she earned an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train for their Very Short Fiction Award, and also last year, Ashley was nominated as UCF’s choice for the AWP Intro Journals Award in fiction. A longer story of hers, ”Corina’s Blue Horse,” has been published in Francesca Lia Block’s Love Magick anthology, and she’s published an anonymous flash fiction piece in Nicole Monaghan’s anthology, Stripped.
Ashley is also a part of several collaborative projects and reading series, including Burrow Press’s 15 Views of Orlando and There Will Be Words (hosted by J. Bradley), as well as the international Literary Death Match (hosted by Todd Zuniga and presented by Burrow Press). She is also an artist for MOPE, Mind of Pink Elephants Designs, a company that promotes artists and writers.
This year, Dancing Girl Press published her first collection, The Way Home.
She is currently working on publishing a small collection of travel essays and poems.
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Contact: a.inguanta@gmail.com
