Ashley Seitz Kramer
Ashley Seitz Kramer, originally from Ohio, earned an MA in writing from Ohio University, an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a PhD in education from the University of Utah. Her creative work has been widely published and won numerous awards. Museum of Distance (2015) won the Zone 3 Press First Book Award. Proxemics, her second book, was a finalist for the 2025 AWP Donald Hall Prize and is forthcoming from Parlor Press. She has worked in higher education as a writing teacher and administrator for 23 years. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Recognition
- 2026Winner of the Rash Award for Poetry from Broad River Review
Finalist for the Peseroff Prize from Breakwater Review
Semifinalist for the Crab Creek Poetry Prize - 2025Proxemics — Finalist for the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
- 2014Museum of Distance — Winner of the Zone 3 Press First Book Award
- 2013Finalist for the Tusculum Review Poetry Prize
- 2012Winner of the Mountain West Writers’ Award from Western Humanities Review
- 2010Winner of the Ruth Stone Prize from Hunger Mountain
Winner of the Robert and Adele Schiff Award from The Cincinnati Review
Publications
Forthcoming in Fall 2026
New Ohio Review
Crab Creek Review
Broad River Review
Recent Publications
Grist, “Broom”
Harpur Palate — “Beginning & Ending with Fire” and “Bildungsroman”
The Atlanta Review, “The First Time”
EcoTheo Review, “The Banker’s Hands” and “Notes on Domestic Travel”
Breakwater Review, “My Mother Called Me,” finalist for the Peseroff Prize
Publications
Brevity, “The Sled”
The Burnside Review: “Diagram Including Time & Bananas” and “Area Codes: A Poem with Pie”
The Cincinnati Review: “Winter Storyboard,” winner of the Robert and Adele Schiff Poetry Prize
The Citron Review, “Instructions for Cooking Asparagus”
The Colorado Review: “Astonishment for the Sparrows,” “Proof,” “You Can Fly Too Close to God,” and “Hound”
Cutbank: “Theory of Everything, Almost”
Dogwood Literary Journal: “You Never Killed a Man” and “Allergies”
Hunger Mountain Review, “Between Land and Water,” winner of the Ruth Stone Prize
Iron Horse Literary Review: “My Mother Says Don’t Read That”
Oblong Magazine, “Palm Reading”
Sugar House Review, “After the Late and Last Chat”
The Tusculum Review: “The Better to See You, My Dear,” finalist for the Tusculum Review Poetry Prize
Verse Daily, “Proof,” originally published in The Colorado Review
Western Humanities Review: “Hymn for the Leaping Pig” and “Origin & the Apple Bruised,” winners of the Utah Writers’ Contest
Zone 3: “Each Leg a Good Root,” “Persistence of Vision,” and “Tragedies Near Weeping Rock”
Selected journals
Ashley’s creative work has been widely published in such places as The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Grist, Burnside Review, The Southeast Review, Western Humanities Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Citron Review, Hunger Mountain, Anti-, The Tusculum Review, Passages North, The Cimarron Review, Parcel, Slice Magazine, Harpur Palate, Zone 3 and others.