Ashley Hand is a former Stegner Fellow with her MFA from Cornell. Ashley is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and spent her twenties in the military deploying to austere locations around the world as one of the only women at the helm of a special operations helicopter unit. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Five Points, and elsewhere.
Her debut novel, Land of Enchantment, and follow-up novel, Pink Madonna, are forthcoming from Scribner.