Marlet Ann Ashley

Biography

Marlet Ashley, B.A., B.Ed., M.A., began her career as a T.A. in psychology at the University of Windsor and an instructor of psychology at St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology, Windsor, Ontario. After earning an M.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing at the U. of Windsor, she taught creative writing there as a sessional instructor. Moving to Vancouver, B.C. she was a tenured instructor of literature and composition at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, B.C. Her first novel is The Right Kind of Crazy (2018). She and illustrator Kate Brown have published a children’s books series Revelry on the Estuary—The Interlopers, Trumpeters’ Tribulations, Penelope Piper’s Great Adventure, Henri Sings the Blues, and A Pirate’s Life for Gabby—as well as a children’s Christmas book—Must Be Christmas—and Robin and Ruthie Ride the Bus. Marlet Ashley's short stories and poetry have been included in a variety of literary publications. She is the author of the Canadian edition of Literature and the Writing Process, Pearson Prentice Hall, Toronto. She is a member of the Federation of BC Writers. Marlet has been a guest lecturer at Elder College at North Island College. She has also conducted fiction writing workshops for the Comox Valley Writers Society’s conference at North Island College (2018, 2019 and slated for 2020). One of three finalists for the 2012 John Kenneth Galbraith Literary Award, she was also the recipient of an honourable mention in the Lorian Hemmingway 2018 Short Story Competition. Marlet lives and facilitates a fiction writing group in Comox, BC.