Ashley Jae Carranza is a writer, educator, and creator based in Las Vegas. Her flash fiction has appeared in literary journals including Flash Fiction Magazine, Beautiful Losers, Postcard Shorts, Entropy 2, Bear Flag, and Maudlin House. Her academic works appear in collections about Stranger Things and pedagogical theory on creative writing, while her own edited collection on collective anxieties and film studies is published through McFarland Publishers.
Carranza is working on her debut novel A Boy Named Doctor, a coming-of-age story set in the California desert.
Ashley Jae Carranza is a writer, educator, and creator based in Las Vegas. Her flash fiction has appeared in literary journals including Flash Fiction Magazine, Beautiful Losers, Postcard Shorts, Entropy 2, Bear Flag, and Maudlin House. Her academic works appear in collections about Stranger Things and pedagogical theory on creative writing, while her own edited collection on collective anxieties and film studies is published through McFarland...
Essays on Terror, Trauma and Loss in Film, 1998-2019
The early 2000s was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism. In the two decades since, popular culture--particularly film--has manifested the underlying anxieties of the American psyche. This collection...
