BURNING, BREAKING, BUILDING
BY ASHLEY HOWELL BUNN
$19.99
TRIM SIZE: 6 X 9
ISBN: 9781735035550
PUBLICATION DATE: 11.16.25
SUBJECT: POETRY
Bunn has shed her skin on paper for us to smooth…
–HILLARY LEFTWICH
AUTHOR OF SAINT DYMPHNA’S PLAYBOOK
“”It is the sacred work of the poet to scavenge through the ashes of all that was, and find within them some boiled down truth that will be the spirit of tomorrow, an elegy for the past, a potent echo of the now. In these pages, Ashley Howell Bunn does just this, showing us the still smoking, smoldering soul that is a poem, in all its unbecoming and rebirths, in all its falling apart and coming together again…”
—ALEXANDER SHALOM JOSEPH, AUTHOR OF THE CLEARING
ASHLEY HOWELL BUNN
Ashley Howell Bunn (she/they) completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. Their work has appeared in many places both in print and online. Their first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing and their second chapbook, Living Amends—coauthored with Alexander Shalom Joseph, is forthcoming through Galileo Press . Their work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Sundress Publications. She is an adjunct instructor of English at the Community College of Denver and the Youth Program Coordinator at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She is a certified somatic coach and yoga guide, and she offers somatic writing workshops in-person and virtually. When she isn’t writing, she is practicing yoga, running in the sunshine, playing with her kids, or daydreaming and staring off into space.