Ashleigh Young

Biography

Ashleigh Young lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where she works as an editor at Victoria University Press. She is the author of the poetry collection Magnificent Moon (Victoria, 2013) and the essay collection Can You Tolerate This? (Victoria, 2016), which won a 2017 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize from Yale University and is forthcoming (Riverhead, 2018).

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2018

She Cannot Work

By Ashleigh Young ,  Illustration by Anders Nilsen

She cannot work when the man is in the house. She is working on a project that she has been working on for a long time, and ever since she began living with the man the project has been moving slowly and she is no longer sure that she will...