Ashley Seitz Kramer, born and raised in Ohio, has won the Ruth Stone Prize, the Robert and Adele Schiff Prize, and the Utah Writers' Award. She earned her B.A. from Miami University in Oxford, her M.A. from Ohio University, and her M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives and teaches in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she is an assistant dean at Westminster College and a doctoral student in Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Utah.