Ashley Herring Blake is an award-winning American author and teacher known for her contributions to children's and young adult fiction. Her works include the young adult novels Suffer Love, How to Make a Wish, and Girl Made of Stars (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the middle grade novels Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James, and Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea (Little, Brown). Her adult romance novels include Delilah Green Doesn't Care and Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Berkley).

Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World was recognized as a Stonewall Honor Book and was included in Kirkus, School Library Journal, NYPL, and NPR's Best Books of 2018. Her novel Girl Made of Stars was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.

Blake holds a Master’s degree in teaching and is a mother to two boisterous boys. She enjoys coffee, arranging her books by color, and cold weather. She lives on a very tiny island off the coast of Georgia with her family. Ashley is represented by Rebecca Podos at the Rees Agency.