About Ashlee

Ashlee Cowles is the author of the award-winning Young Adult novel Beneath Wandering Stars (Simon & Schuster 2016, Colorado Book Award 2017), its sequel Below Northern Lights, (2018) and The Poppy and The Rose (Owl Hollow Press 2020), a YA Historical Mystery.

With Danielle Stinson, Ashlee is also part of the dynamic duo A.D. Rhine, the writing-best friend team behind HORSES OF FIRE and DAUGHTERS OF BRONZE, an epic Historical duology about the Trojan War for adults (Dutton Books /Penguin-Random House, July 2023 & Fall 2024).

Raised as a “third culture” military kid without permanent roots, Ashlee lived many of her formative years overseas and has spent significant time in Germany, Spain, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. She loves traveling and learning about other cultures as well as from the past–all of which influence her writing.

After pursuing graduate degrees in Theological Ethics from Duke University and Medieval History from the University of St. Andrews, Ashlee encountered the Big Questions young people tend to ask firsthand as a high school teacher and college instructor. She has also worked as a copywriter, editor, instructional designer, and nonprofit grant writer.

Ashlee currently lives among the vineyards, lakes, and forests of northern Michigan with her husband and two young children, where she is constantly doing research for her next novel and daydreaming about her next trip to a distant land.

Want to get in touch? Connect with Ashlee via her monthly newsletter, New Places & Past Ages, or send a message to ashleelcowles[at]gmail.com.

Ashlee is represented by Shannon Hassan of the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.