Renée Ashley's collection SALT, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1991).  She has received the Ruth Lake Memorial and Robert H. Winner Awards from the Poetry Society of America;  from the KENYON REVIEW, she has been given both the Award for Emerging Writers and the Award for Literary Excellence.  She is the recipient of the 1996 CHELSEA Award in Poetry, the 1997 AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW Award in Poetry, and Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  She is Assistant Poetry Coordinator for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
Avocet Press is honored to have published two books of poetry by Renée Ashley:
The Various Reasons of Light
The Revisionist's Dream
Congratulations to Renée.  Her novel, SOMEPLACE LIKE THIS was published by Permanent Press mid-2003.