Ashley Lumpkin is a Georgia-raised, Carolina-based writer, editor, actor, and educator.
She is the author of four chapbooks and one full-length poetry collection. Her book, I Hate You All Equally, is a collection of conversations from her years as a classroom teacher. A lover of performance and the written word, she has been a competing member of the Bull City Slam Team since 2015 and currently serves as its coach.
She is the author of The Sad Stays (Scuppernong Editions), a genre-fluid, hybrid-memoir exploring her lifetime struggle with her mental health.
Above all else, Ashley considers herself a teacher, poet, and fryer of food. She is a lover of mathematics and language. She loves you too.