Ashley Seitz Kramer

Ashley Seitz Kramer is a poet from Ohio who now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her first book, Museum of Distance, won the Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry. She has also won the Ruth Stone Prize and the Utah Writers' Contest. She is Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences at Westminster College and previously taught college writing in Ohio for a decade. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Colorado Review, Quarterly West, and The Cincinnati Review. Her second collection, Proxemics, is forthcoming from Parlor Press and was a finalist for the 2025 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.