Renee Ashley is the author of five volumes of poetry, two chapbooks, and a novel, as well as numerous essays and reviews. A portion of her poem 'First Book of the Moon' is in Penn Station Terminal in Manhattan, part of a permanent installation by Larry Kirkland. She is a poetry editor of The Literary Review and a member of the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program and the MA in Creative Writing and Literature for Educators.