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

Oct 23

Written By Ash Good

I collaborate as a design consultant with Student Media at Loyola Marymount University to produce and publish their annual student-led award-winning yearbook. The 2025 edition of The Tower, received six honors from the College Media Association, including being named Yearbook of the Year. Other first-place prizes included Yearbook Division Page for “Life on the Bluff” by Sophia Sanchez and Delaney Birkett and Yearbook Spread for “LA: Smoke, Ash and Recovery” by Raoul-Mihai Simu.

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Ash Good

⚡️⚡️PLAY👉SACRED⚡️⚡️ 💫free 🌈queer 🎯curator ◼️designer ⭕️editor 🌊poet 🔮priestess 🌱plantwhisperer

This space is where I free myself to meaning-make in my own aesthetic to document and unpack concepts, experiments and experiences that are important to me. Read more about my praxis here. For brand curation and book design click over to ashgood.design. For ritual, movement, meditation, writing circles, toys and pop-up experiences to play with your intuition, visit highpriestesses.com. If you’d like to know more, my full bio is here.

http://www.ashgood.com/

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

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.

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

2 poems in New Feathers Anthology

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

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.