Ashley Bowen MFA, PhD

Full Time General Studies English Assistant Professor

Education

• Ph.D., English/Creative Writing, University of North Texas
• M.F.A., Creative Writing—Poetry, University of Arkansas
• M.A., English/Creative Writing—Fiction, University of Louisiana, Monroe
• B.A. , English/American Studies, University of Arkansas, Monticello

Teaching Specialties

• Creative Writing
• Composition
• Contemporary U.S. Literature

Research Interests

Affiliations
Sigma Tau Delta

Biography
rior to joining the English faculty at Arkansas State University—CQ, Ash Bowen bounced around the United States, teaching at various schools in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, and North Dakota.

He has published widely as a poet and his first book of poems, The Even Years of Marriage, won the 2012 Orphic Prize.

He has an endless supply of useless Beatles facts ready to be dispensed at a second’s notice.