Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry, Salt (Brittingham Prize in Poetry), The Various Reasons of Light, and The Revisionist's Dream. Her novel, Someplace Like This, was published by The Permanent Press in 2003. She has received creative writing fellowships from the New Jersey Council of the Arts and the NEA, and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low residency MFA program in Creative Writing. She is poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature and will be Distiguished Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University in 2005.

About The Literary Review:
Poets in this issue: Michael Morse, Julian Kornhauser, Joseph Starr, Katherine Soniat, Walter Griffin, Toon Tellegen, John Drury, Thomas Halloran, Idra Novey, Rebecca Reynolds, Durs Grunbein, Daniel Mark Epstein, Diane Mehta, Renée Ashley, Jonah Winter, Takamura Kotaro, Timothy Houghton, Lois Marie Harrod, Lee Upton, Eduardo Chirinos, Jullian Weise, Grace Butcher