Ashleigh Young is the author of How I Get Ready (VUP, 2019), Can You Tolerate This? (VUP, 2016), and Magnificent Moon (VUP, 2012). Her poetry and essays have been widely published in print and online journals in New Zealand and overseas. She works as an editor at Victoria University Press.

Verb Festival 2020 appearances:
2pm, Nov 8: So Real (Newtown Sunday Stroll)