Ashley Mezzano

Ashley Mezzano is a queer poet, educator, and "meowchi" plushie collector. Her work has been previously featured in Beyond the Veil Press and Northeast Poetry Hub. She has upcoming pieces for publication with Tiny Spoon Lit and Porcupine Literary.

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Jacksonville, FL, United States

Selected work (8 publications)

Porcupine Literary , 2023

When a Lab Notebook is a Student’s Diary"Chey is thirteen, but she sighs like she’s in college and there’s another term paper due. It's the seventh period of the day and she’s tired. My class is the one where she is the most hungry and most irritable, and with one final huff, she sits..."

creative nonfiction

Neuroqueer Zine, 2023

Concerta, Fluoxetine, IUD"My mother holds a camcorder, crying, You’re not right, this isn’t right because I am struggling to pronounce the word “these” and everyone has assumed I am hungry. This is the third time my mother has offered me cheddar sticks, and each time..."

poetry

Tiny Spoon, 2023

On Loving Your Wife The Worm"If your wife asks you if you would still love her as an annelid, she is not asking you to bury her. She is asking: What does it mean to love when your partner can offer you nothing? When gravity buries you in filth and apple cores litter..."

poetry

Tiny Spoon, 2023

Ouroboros Is A Woman"My past is a carcass that the vultures love. Each evening I wrestle instead of rest, wonder what you were like at twenty-seven, what serpent you fought with, and then I realize: That is the year you gave birth to me."

poetry

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