Ashni Math is a nonfiction writer, poet, and educator located in New York City. A second-year MFA candidate at Columbia University, she creates experimental, genre-fluid, and often bizarre works that ask and occasionally answer the absurd questions of the everyday. 

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Ashni has studied at Carnegie Mellon University (BA Creative Writing, Technical Writing), where she was an Editor-In-Chief of the Oakland Review, a consultant at CMU's writing center, an Andrew Carnegie Scholar, a Dietrich Honors Fellow, the winner of the Nagin Senior Honors Thesis Award and several Adamson Awards, and the undergraduate student speaker at the English Department Diploma Ceremony. Prior to this, she attended the Iowa Young Writers' Studio, Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, and California Summer State School for the Arts (Creative Writing concentration). 

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Ashni teaches creative writing with focuses in poetry and creative nonfiction. She is also the founder of Emerging Minds College Counseling, through which she mentors high school students. When she's not writing or teaching, you can usually find Ashni on the volleyball court, coaching for NYC Juniors.