Basic Heart

RENEE ASHLEY is the author of three volumes of poetry as well as a chapbook and a novel. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize. She is on the core faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency Master's of Fine Arts in the creative writing program. She lives in Kingwood, New Jersey.

"... offers us new kinds of songs for our broken-down age...." - Jack Myers, series judge"