Sally Ashton

Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, teacher, and editor-in-chief of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Publishing in three genres, she is the author of five books of poems including Listening to Mars (Cornerstone Press, 2024) and The Behaviour of Clocks (WordFarm, 2019). She lives in California where she taught writing at San José State University for ten years and continues to teach workshops locally, Zoom, and online through Hugo House. Her poem “4.6 Billion Years” is now archived on the Moon. Going to the Moon, a book of essays exploring her personal experience and the race to space, is forthcoming from Duke University Press, July 2026. www.sallyashton.com