poet | co-founding editor @FirstMatterPress | designer + publishing consultant for small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities + independent authors

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i love to bring my experience to projects that center liberation, under-represented voices, poetic craft, children’s literacy + eco-consciousness

recently…

Ash Good 12/1/25 Ash Good 12/1/25

2 poems in New Feathers Anthology

featured poet

Ash Good 10/23/25 Ash Good 10/23/25

The Tower '25 receives CMA Pinnacle Award: Yearbook of the Year

design consultant

Ash Good 10/4/25 Ash Good 10/4/25

2025 First Matter Press cohort release: Annemarie Eayrs, nawa angel a.h., Violeta Garza & Claudia Saleeby Savage

lead editor | contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 10/4/25 Ash Good 10/4/25

Makerspace at Portland Poetry Confluence

coordinating editor

Ash Good 6/30/25 Ash Good 6/30/25

“to want is to want a body & to get is an opening” in Blood Tree Literature

featured poet

Ash Good 4/28/25 Ash Good 4/28/25

“ten-cent flower & other territories” receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 4/20/25 Ash Good 4/20/25

Jeff’s Bacchanalia at after/time Collective Gallery

curator

Ash Good 8/10/24 Ash Good 8/10/24

2024 First Matter Press cohort release: “greenhouse” and “Suspended In My Insecticide Jar”

lead editor | contributing editor | publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 6/11/24 Ash Good 6/11/24

“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

publication designer | digital publishing consultant

Ash Good 6/6/24 Ash Good 6/6/24

3 poems in Pile Press Issue 08

featured poet

Ash Good 5/31/24 Ash Good 5/31/24

“LA Miscellany”: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction and Art

publication designer | digital publishing consultant

Ash Good 5/31/24 Ash Good 5/31/24

“CRITERION: A Literary Journal”

publication designer | digital publishing consultant

Ash Good 5/30/24 Ash Good 5/30/24

Lorraine Anderson’s “Slow Cook Solar” wins Silver Nautilus Book Award

publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 5/21/24 Ash Good 5/21/24

4 poems in Posit

featured poet

Ash Good 5/1/24 Ash Good 5/1/24

Denise Chávez’s “Street of Too Many Stories”

publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 4/15/24 Ash Good 4/15/24

“i can’t unknow any knowing of a death grip” in Willawaw Journal

featured poet

Ash Good 3/15/24 Ash Good 3/15/24

Alan Salazar’s “Chumash Stories”

publication designer | production consultant

Ash Good 1/29/24 Ash Good 1/29/24

First Matter Press awarded Literary Arts’ 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Publishers

co-founding editor

Ash Good 12/20/23 Ash Good 12/20/23

“Journal of Children’s Literature” Vol. 49, No. 2

publication designer

Ash Good 10/15/23 Ash Good 10/15/23

Belinda Hernández Arriaga’s “Amor y Monstruos en la Vida de Sofía” Receives International Latino Book Awards Bronze Medal

publication designer | production consultant

poet | co-founding editor @FirstMatterPress | designer + publishing consultant for small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities + independent authors

Looking to collab?

i love to bring my experience to projects that center liberation, under-represented voices, poetic craft, children’s literacy + eco-consciousness

recently…

2 poems in New Feathers Anthology

The Tower '25 receives CMA Pinnacle Award: Yearbook of the Year

2025 First Matter Press cohort release: Annemarie Eayrs, nawa angel a.h., Violeta Garza & Claudia Saleeby Savage

Makerspace at Portland Poetry Confluence

“to want is to want a body & to get is an opening” in Blood Tree Literature

“ten-cent flower & other territories” receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

Jeff’s Bacchanalia at after/time Collective Gallery

2024 First Matter Press cohort release: “greenhouse” and “Suspended In My Insecticide Jar”

“We Are Dreaming of Freedom”: Picturebook + Teaching Guide

3 poems in Pile Press Issue 08

“LA Miscellany”: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction and Art

“CRITERION: A Literary Journal”

Lorraine Anderson’s “Slow Cook Solar” wins Silver Nautilus Book Award

4 poems in Posit

Denise Chávez’s “Street of Too Many Stories”

“i can’t unknow any knowing of a death grip” in Willawaw Journal

Alan Salazar’s “Chumash Stories”

First Matter Press awarded Literary Arts’ 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Publishers

“Journal of Children’s Literature” Vol. 49, No. 2

Belinda Hernández Arriaga’s “Amor y Monstruos en la Vida de Sofía” Receives International Latino Book Awards Bronze Medal

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Blood Tree Literature, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, recipient of Literary Arts' 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers, where they uplift first-time publishing poets and genre-expanding writers.

As an editor, creative director & designer, ash collaborates with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.