Jen Ashburn

Poet and Creative Nonfiction Writer

A woman with dark short hair wearing a flower-print blouse and black cardigan in front of a stone wall
A woman with dark short hair and glasses wearing a white jacket. Two buildings and a car in the background.
A woman with dark short hair wearing a flower-print blouse in front of a galvanized steel wall.

Latests Posts

  • Essay in Vox Populi

    Many thanks to Michael Simms and Vox Populi for publishing “A Long Unraveling”, an essay about my mother.

    "I did not know that the tether between us...
    would thin to almost nothing, like a thread of honey 
    slipping from a spoon."

  • New Poem in Muleskinner

    I’m honored to have my poem “Palaver in the House of Abandoned Things” included in the Borderlands Issue of The Muleskinner Journal.

    https://www.muleskinnerjournal.com/palaver-in-the-house-of-abandoned-things

    Painting of a woman hand sewing at a table
    The Small Drawing-Room: Mme Hessel at Her Sewing Table,
    Edouard Vuillard, CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication, Wikimedia Commons
  • Power City Presents…LIVE WIRE

    A Night of Poetry and Music

    Come out to Brillobox on Thursday, July 9th, 7 p.m. for a Scott Silsbe Power City Books event, featuring Don Wentworth, Jennifer Browne, Meghan Tutolo, Scott, and yours truly.

    4104 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224

    Poster giving the details of the reading.