Jane Ashley Butler
Jane Ashley's work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, Dislocate, and POOL. A 2007-08 writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Ashley won the 2007 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Award and was a finalist for Caketrain's 2008 Chapbook Competition. She holds a B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Columbia University and is currently finishing her MFA at the University of Iowa where she has taught composition and creative writing for the past three years.