Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt, The Various Reasons for Light, and The Revisionist's Dream. She has received creative writing fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the NEA.

Other poems by Renée Ashley in Verse Daily:
December 8, 2004:  "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary" "Oh Yes Tomorrow Expect the Ordinary..."

Other poems from Chautauqua Literary Journal in Verse Daily:
July 4, 2005:   "Mourner" Geraldine Connolly
July 16, 2004:  "Oboe" by Conrad Hilberry
July 15, 2004:  "Proverbs" by Angie Estes
July 12, 2004:  "Lily of the Valley" by Roald Hoffmann

About Chautauqua Literary Journal:
Poets in this issue: Mark DeFoe, David Ray, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Richard Lehnert, Tim Seurmondt, Taylor Graham, Stephen Cushman, Robert Phillips, Hailey Leithauser, Michelle Maher, Elisabeth Murawski, A. E. Felix, Philip Terman, Mike Ladd, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Joanne Lowery, Sarah Kennedy, Kathryn Lomer, Renée Ashley, Geraldine Connolly, William Thompson, Charles Harper Webb