Renée Ashley is the author of three volumes of poetry: Salt (University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, The Various Reasons of Light, The Revisionist's Dream (Avocet Press, 1998), and a chapbook, The Museum of Lost Wings (Hill-Stead Museum Press).  She is also the author of the novel Someplace Like This (Permanent Press, 2003). She has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a contributing editor to The Literary Review, and is on the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University's low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.