Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman who was born and raised in Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from Queens College, City College of New York. Somwaru has recently published a chapbook in 2021 titled Urgent \\ Where The Mind Goes \\ Scattered. Previous work has been published in A Gathering Together, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Peach Velvet Magazine, and No, Dear Magazine.
