Ashley Blooms was born and raised in Cutshin, Kentucky. She’s a graduate of the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and received her MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow from the University of Mississippi. Her fiction has appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Shimmer, among others, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Oxford American. She’s currently at work on a novel. You can find more about her at www.ashleyblooms.com.