Poetrist

Asia Nicolette Ashley is a Black queer poetrist and curator from Chicago. Through writing, workshops, and event curation, she focuses on the power of somatic inquiry, memory, and black interiority to foster collective healing. She lives in Seattle and is pursuing her MFA at the University of Washington Bothell.

Traces is a collection that explores sensory experiences—how sensations shape memory, longing, and transformation, tethering us to time, place, and one another. In these pages, we write through our senses not only as a creative strategy but as a way

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