About

Ashley Granillo is a Mexican-American writer.

She is a native Los Angeleno and has her BA and MA in Creative Writing from California State University Northridge, but she got her start as a writer at the age of five when she illustrated and published her first “book" through Telfair Elementary's Book Buddy program in Pacoima, California. She holds her MFA in Fiction from UCR's Low Residency program in Palm Desert.

When she isn’t writing, Ashley assists her community by volunteering as a local artist judge for their annual Sidewalk Poetry Project. She also reads fiction submissions and writes reviews for The Coachella Review.

Additionally, she is an associate professor of English, and helping her students view the study of composition and critical thinking beyond the English classroom.

Ashley is represented by Hannah Andrade at Bradford Literary.

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Writing

Growing up, I never saw myself reflected in any medium. So, I took matters into my own imagination and made-up characters that reflected my experiences as a Mexican-American living in Southern California.

I am particularly drawn to quiet contemporary stories about girls who like to dream big, and who live in small Hispanic communities that most Americans have never heard of.

Because of my background in postmodernism, I gravitate toward decentering and destabilizing tropes in romance and other genres of fiction.

Additionally, I love to experiment with magical realism and surrealist elements, as well as utilize my background in poetry to bring musicality to my prose.