Ashlee Green

Bio: Ashlee Green (she/they), second-year nonfiction MFA candidate at Mason, and a 2023 Cheuse Fellow. Green traveled to Norway on her fellowship to research the country's history of anarchism, naturism, and sauna culture, conducting on-the-ground interviews with Norwegian anarchists, naturists, academics, and historians for a zine of collected perspectives regarding body politics and the natural world. She spent the week of Aug. 21 2023, at The Inner Loop Lit's writing residency at Woodlawn and The Pope-Leighey House in Alexandria, Va. They're working on a personal essay incorporating the social engineering in Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian architecture and completed a zine comparing the architecture of Woodlawn and Pope-Leighey. Read Green's blog post about the experience here: (https://www.theinnerlooplit.org/single-post/summer-writer-in-residence-ashlee-green-on-legacies-tours-and-textbooks-one-week-at-woodlawn). The former managing editor of a community newspaper in Pittsburgh, Pa., she holds a B.A. in creative nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh. In her free time, she enjoys practicing handstands, visiting art museums, stoking bonfires, and napping in her hammock.

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