Ashley Espinoza
Ashley Espinoza received her MFA at the University of Nebraska. Her work has been published in the New York Times – Tiny Love Story, Insider, Assay, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, River Teeth, Forge Literary Magazine, JMWW, HAD, Bending Genres, Reckon Review, and Orion Magazine among other places. She is a nonfiction editor for The Good Life Review. She is a 2025 Periplus Fellow and a Tin House Workshop alumn. She is currently working on a memoir about growing up with a teen mom, and about becoming a single mother.
Featured Writing
The Crash – Blood Orange Review
Sing, Don’t Cry – New York Times, Tiny Love Story
I’m a Single Mom and Have Tons of Support. It’s Still Lonely – Insider
Rose Quartz – JMWW
Anti-Depression – Reckon Review
27 Miles – Mom Egg Review
Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” – Insider
Is it Too Late? – Bending Genres
Piñon– HAD
Pumping– The Forge Literary Magazine
Yuma, CO – Orion Magazine
A las Mujeres: Hybrid Identities in Latina Memoir– Assay : A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Puerto Rico and Jaquira Diaz’s Ordinary Girls – Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog
Under My Bed and Other Essay’s by Jodi Keisner – GXRL
One Woman’s Testament to Why “Home” Eludes Us – River Teeth
Does Genre Bend Me? Jenny Boully’s “On the EEO Genre Sheet” – Assay In the Classroom Blog Series
The Other Ones by David Housley – Atticus Review
