Ash Parsons is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Clown College as well as other, more traditional schools. She is a PEN America Literary Award Winner for the Phyllis Naylor Fellowship, and a Literary Arts Fellow for the Alabama State Council of the Arts.
They previously taught English to middle and high school students, as well as teaching creative writing Media Studies at Auburn University. Ash lives in Alabama with her family.