Ashley Ranich is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY.

She writes from the spaces in between—between cultures, between class, between belonging and exile.

As a Korean-American adoptee, her work explores identity as something fluid and fractured, shaped as much by absence as by presence.

She is drawn to contradiction—the way grief and humor coexist, the way memory and myth tangle, the way survival is both heavy and absurd. Her writing interrogates the quiet tensions of class dissonance, the weight of inheritance, and the stories we create to make sense of what cannot be known.

Through screenplays, essays, and cultural criticism, she searches for the questions that won’t let go: What do we carry? What do we leave behind? What does it mean to belong to something that no longer exists?

Her work seeks no resolution. It sits in the tension, in the things left unsaid, in the space between knowing and not knowing. She writes because these stories have been buried, distorted, ignored. Because telling them is not optional.