Ashley Chambers, aka Bodyconference, is a writer, artist, theologian, and educator currently living in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a Master of Sacred Theology and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama. She teaches multimedia composition and creative writing at Rutgers University and Portland State University.
Her first book, The Exquisite Buoyancies, a performative elegy written to a departed spirit, was published by New Michigan Press at the University of Arizona in 2021.
Her first full-length film, M0, a theoerotic exploration of resurrection as practice, not event, in homage to liberation theologian Ivone Gebara, is currently in post-production and will be released in 2023.
AC/BC can be reached on Instagram @bodyconference or by email at ashleyelizabethchambers@gmail.com.