Ash Tré Phillips is a genderqueer poet born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are a maker of puns, lover of coffee, and destroyer of gender. They are a two-time Youth Speaks Teen poetry slam finalist.

They have self published two chapbooks, The World Has a Timestamp (2018) and Absurdism: An Elegy for Kurt Cobain (2017). The poems "Dead Girls Birthday Cake", "Reflexes", and "Flatline" appear in Straight Up: An Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Anthology edited by Rose Gelfand. Their essay "(Coming Out) Of My Cage and I've Been Doing Just Fine" was published in Transvestia, Issue 1 (2019) by Jackson Stoner.

They are the parent of two cats and have been dubbed Tongo Eisen-Martin's poetry heir.

THIS WORLD HAS A TIMESTAMP...

This World has a Timestamp is a story of life, a story of death, but more than that it is about the realities of survival against society and yourself.

UPCOMING READINGS

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Ash Tré Phillips appears at the monthly reading series Voz Sin Tinta every second Thursday at Alley Cat Books in the Mission at 6:30pm.

They will be reading at Literary Speakeasy at Martuni's in San Francisco on May 30th.