Ashley Oakes lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she works as an academic tutor. Some of her poems have appeared in Westview, Claw+Blossom, Meetinghouse, Unstamatic, Pink Panther Magazine, Cypress Review (forthcoming) and elsewhere. In 2023 she was a finalist for the Patricia Cleary Miller Award For Poetry at New Letters Magazine. More recently, she was a featured author at the 2025 Scissortail Creative Writing Festival at East Central University.
POETRY: Issue 35