Selected Publications

My work spans short fiction, essays, and reviews, with pieces appearing in literary journals and online magazines that I admire (including some now defunct, RIP). Here’s a selection of that work, gathered by genre, with links where available—sometimes thanks to the Wayback Machine.

Fiction

• “The Whole Cold World,” published in Monkeybicycle, March 2021
• “What Will Make It Last,” published in Joyland, May 2016 — a Longform Fiction Pick of the Week & Joyland‘s Most-Read in the South
• “A Few Electric Seconds,” published in New South Journal, February 2016
• “Pre-Loved,” published in Whiskeypaper, June 2014
• “My shadow was a mermaid named Monica,” published in Squalorly, 2014
• “The Low Hum of Vegetation,” published in Smokelong Quarterly, December 2013
• “Because We Make a Living,” published in Paper Darts, October 2013
• “Shelter Like a Sinking Ship,” published in DOGZPLOT, 2011
• “Dog-Chest,” published in decomP, 2010

Poetry

• “Thales, The First Western Philosopher” and “The Geometry of Love,” published in Potomac Review, Issue 55, Fall 2014
• “Hometown: A Field Guide,” published in Midwest Quarterly Review, Issue 55.2, Winter 2014
• “Initiation,” published in Bayou, Issue 61, 2014
• “When every skyscraper is only a sandcastle” and “Angels on Horseback or Devils,” published in Sundog Lit, Summer 2014
• “Cavity” and “Atlantis,” published in Revolution House, December 2013
• “In Buenos Aires,” published in Bluestem, Winter 2013
• “Rag and Bone,” published in Nashville Review, December 2013
• “The Worst Thing about the South Carolina State Fair,” published in Fifth Wednesday, Issue 10, Spring 2012
• “Holy Grounds,” published in Unsplendid, 2011
• “Sidewalking” and “Genesis,” published in Word Riot, November 2010

Reviews

• “The Inevitable Ongoingness: László Krasznahorkai’s Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens,” published in The Scofield 1.3 (Spring 2016)
• “Blue Voyage by Conrad Aiken,” published in The Scofield 2.2 (Spring 2017)

Essays

• “On Clarence Carter’s “Patches”,” published in March Xness 2020: March Badness, March 2020
• “Our Hero, or Faith and Desire: A Voiceover,” published in Cartridge Lit, June 2014
• “Exposure: Notes from the Underworld,” published in dislocate, Summer 2012

Interviews

• “There Is No One Story: An interview with Elise Blackwell,” written by Ashley Strosnider, published in storySouth, 2015
• “Word Influenza: PW Talks with Alena Graedon,” written by Ashley Strosnider, published in Publishers Weekly, April 2014
• “Smoking with Ashley Strosnider,” an interview with Ashley Strosnider by Josh Denslow, published on Smokelong Quarterly in December 2013
• “Advice from Six Amazing Writers on Writing Your Flash,” an interview with Ashley Strosnider by Michael Alexander Chaney, published on his blog in 2013

Miscellaneous

• Why Meeting More Imaginations Matters: Ashley Strosnider at TEDx Lincoln Women 2015: a TEDx talk on why who decides what you’re reading matters, why a lack of diversity in reading is its own kind of censorship, and what you can do about it.
• NoName Reading Series 2021: Ashley Strosnider joins an event hosted by students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to read an excerpt of a short story (25:34–38:50).