Ashley Carranza resides in Las Vegas where she writes fiction, personal essays, popular culture academia, and pedagogy. She tries... really hard. In addition to writing, she is a Spam and Twinkie-loving gym enthusiast. She lives in a world of paradox.
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Editor
Chapter included: "ParaNormative: Pressures on Sexuality Within Society in ParaNorman"
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Contributing author : "Using Flash Fiction as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching Creative Writing Online"
2023- "A Slice of the Good Life"- Bear Flag Press
2020- Children's Book World of Whiskers by Ashley Carranza and Maria Azar
2019- "Julian Goes on a Date With a Really Old Man"- Helen UnIncorporated
2019- "Jesus Christ, Super Star DJ"- Entropy 2
2017- "Julian Goes on a Date With a Really Old Man"- Beautiful Losers
2017- "Julian Learns a Lesson at the T.G.I. Friday's"- Maudlin House
2016- "The Old Lady Makes a Break for It"- Flash Fiction Magazine
2015- "Cork Art"- Postcard Shorts
2013- Fiction Editor/Reader
2015-2018- Contributing Editor/Fiction reader
2016-2018- Editor
Current- Peer Reviewer (Horror, popular culture, American film, Stephen King studies)
English Language Acquisition Development
English/Concentration on Creative Writing. Certificate in Higher Education-Teaching Composition and Rhetoric.
English. Teaching Certificate- Secondary Education, English/Language Arts
Far West PCA/ACA Regional- February, Las Vegas, NV. Panel Organizer/Chair/Presenter- Cultural Issues in Film 1998-2020. Paper presented: "ParaNormative: Pressures on Sexuality within Society in ParaNorman"
PCA/ACA National- March, Indianapolis, IN. Paper presented: "The Rebirth of King's Children"
PCA/ACA Summer Research Institute- March, Bowling Green University, OH.
PAMLA Regional- May, Riverside, CA. Paper presented: "ParaNormative: Pressures on Sexuality Within Society in ParaNorman"
PCA/ACA National- April, Chicago, IL. Paper presented: "Why I Am Jamie Lee Curtis"
PCA/ACA Regional- February, Albuquerque, NM. Paper presented: "Zombies, Xenophobia, and the Never-Ending Battle with 'The Other'"
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