Meet local author and poet Ashley Stephenson as she highlights her poetry collections.  

Ashley M. Stephenson is an author, legal and policy strategist, and lifelong seeker of meaning whose work explores resilience, transformation, and the quiet strength that emerges in life’s most defining moments.

She is the author of Tapestry Threads: Life, Death, & Resilience, a poetry collection exploring grief, healing, and renewal, and Rise Up: Be Resilient Like You’re Running Out of Time, a work centered on personal growth, perseverance, and the urgency of living with intention.

Her work has been featured in Huffington Post, Attorney at Law Magazine, the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, the D.C. Bar Blog (Duly Noted), Paralegals Connect Magazine, Google News, and across multiple FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS affiliates. She has also spoken at community colleges and organizations nationwide, sharing insights on resilience, growth, and personal transformation.

When she’s not writing, Ashley can be found exploring the world with her pug, Loubie — collecting stories, quiet moments, and inspiration for what comes next.