Still Life
“Easily, the dead are the wittiest among us, and you among them, lying there that evening, so peaceful, as though only just resting.”
Ashley Steineger
Ashley Steineger is a poet and crisis counselor whose work has been featured in The Shore, The Mantle, and Tiny Spoon, among others. She is the author of the chapbook Ebb/Flow (Blanket Sea Press, June 2021). Ashley received her MFA from Queen’s University of Charlotte, and is a Best of the Net nominee. She strongly believes that poetry is the language of healing, and that we are all in this together. Ashley lives and writes out of Raleigh, NC, where she enjoys forest bathing, collecting tattoos, and untranslatable words.