Ash Tré Phillips is a non-binary artist born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are a Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam two-time finalist and a slam poetry veteran. 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 were one of the hosts and the MC of the late bilingual open mic and reading series Voz Sin Tinta.. They are also a certified tarot reader and have spent the majority of their life trying to unravel and find their place in the cosmos, which has led them outside the state of California to start a new journey in Colorado.