Hannah Ashley is an Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at West Chester University and the Director of Writing Zones 12.5, a university-secondary schools partnership. Writing Zones runs writing centers in high schools which are open to all students, while particularly supporting low-to-middle income students, students of color and ESL students with their aspirations toward higher education.

In addition to Reflections, Dr. Ashley serves on the boards of the Council on Basic Writing and the Journal of Basic Writing; she has published in journals such as RTE, JBW, Pedagogy and College Literature. Her most recent article is "The Art of Queering Voices: A Fugue" (JBW, 2007).