Ashelyn is a graduate student in the English M.A. Literature program from Portland, Oregon. She's also an English Teaching Fellow who teaches Rhetorical Arts for first-year LMU students and a graduate writing tutor! She earned her B.A. in English with a double minor in French and Professional Writing from UC Santa Barbara. She enjoys reading and writing about eco-literature and hopes to continue learning about ecocriticism and the Blue Humanities. Also, as readers may note from her project’s cover photo, manatees are her favorite animals!