Ashley McCauliff
Bio
A Massachusetts native, whose heart is in Vermont. Received a BFA in creative writing from Johnson State College, Roger Rath Mark Canavan Award for best BFA writer in the program and a two week fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.
Achievements (1)
Stories (6/0)
- Runner-Up in After the Parade Challenge
The Maple in the DrivewayRunner-Up in After the Parade Challenge
I never witnessed the geography of my womanhood so plainly, the ultrasound a topographical map, illuminated the hard camber and narrow archway of my uterus— while the surrounding contour climbed and plummeted like a spool of ribbon snaking across a pane of film no larger than a greeting card—
By Ashley McCauliff2 years ago in Poets
The Talking Place
THE TALKING PLACE The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. Inside, two tower-climbers for American Cellular sat, huddled around the schematic diagram of tower #314, or the Cotuit, (pronounced ko-to-it) a Wampanoag word meaning the talking place, as it was informally known by the locals. The tower climbers were, at present, waiting out a particularly wicked Nor’easter before making the climb up tower 314 for an unscheduled inspection after the locals complained about an incessant, high pitched whirring coming from the mountain.
By Ashley McCauliff2 years ago in Fiction
