Ansley is a writer and teacher from the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of Bloodline, forthcoming from MoonPath Press in 2024, and the chapbook Geography (dancing girl press 2015). Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2016. She currently works at Evergreen State College and lives in Olympia, Washington with her dog.