Ashton Freeman

About Ashton

Ashton Freeman is a Brooklyn-based writer and artist. They are the nonfiction editor for Waxwing Literary Journal and a poetry reader with Pigeon Pages. Freeman’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Foglifter, Milk Press, Screen Door Review, and Love & Squalor. They were nominated for the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Freeman received their B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 2023 and is an alum of Interlochen Arts Academy.

I encourage my students to engage creatively with their surroundings–to see the world with magic and to channel it into their writings.