Ashley Somwaru is an Indo-Caribbean woman who was born and raised in Queens, New York. She received an MFA in poetry from CUNY Queens College. Somwaru has published a chapbook with Ghostbird Press in 2021 titled Urgent \\ Where The Mind Goes \\ Scattered. Previous work has been published in Lammergeier, Newtown Literary, Solstice Magazine, SWWIM, VIDA Review, and elsewhere.