Ashley Michele is a feral little swamp gremlin writing queer Southern Gothic stories about mixed, plus-size femmes. Her sweet little babies have blood between their teeth and an insatiable desire for their lovers’ devotion to be...questionable at best. Her work revels in lush prose, visceral atmosphere, and the uncanny, grotesque beauty found where violence, love, and intimacy blur together.

A librarian by day and unapologetic smut peddler by night, Ashley serves as the Assistant Director of Smut Lovers, a community-driven educational conference and book signing that bridges the gap between spicy authors, readers, and real-world kink and BDSM spaces. She is also the founder of AMG Publishing, where she offers developmental editing, systems management, and sensitivity reading grounded in own-voice and intersectional lived experience.

When she isn’t creating new offerings, Ashley can usually be found hammock-bound somewhere in her swamp, listening to something smutty or scary, sending unreasonably long voice notes, and pretending she isn’t emotionally invested in fictional monsters.