Anastasia Ashman

Born:	August 8, 1964 Berkeley, California
Occupation:	Writer
Website:	expatharem.com

Anastasia M. Ashman (born 1964 in Berkeley, California) is a cultural essayist and editor specializing in tales of personal adventure. Her arts, travel and culture journalism and criticism has appeared in a wide range of publications, from international business newspapers and newsmagazines, like the Hong Kong-based Dow Jones properties The Wall Street Journal Asia and Far Eastern Economic Review, to the artsy New York City publication known for defining the alternative weekly genre, The Village Voice. August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Berkeley is the name of several places, all eventually deriving from Berkeley Castle in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, UK, from whom the noble family of Berkeley derive their name, and for which several vessels of the British Royal Navy have been christened HMS Berkeley Castle. Any of the holders of several titles... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern California, in the United States. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for presentation through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ... Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... Dow Jones & Company NYSE: DJ, based in the United States, is a publishing and financial information firm. ... The Wall Street Journal Asia is a version of The Wall Street Journal that provides news and analysis of global business developments for an Asian audience. ... Far Eastern Economic Reviews cover for September issue in 2005 Far Eastern Economic Review (Chinese: 遠東經濟評論) (also referred to as FEER) is an unique Asian news magazine written in the English language since it was founded and developed entirely in Asia. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Recent cover of Portland, Oregons Willamette Week An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. ... The Village Voice is a weekly newspaper in New York City featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ...

Drawn to crossroads of people, place, time and thought, she has written about Nyonya food, the complicated cuisine of a vanishing Chinese-Malayan subculture established in the 15th century; reviewed Tropical Classical, an essay collection by the globalist travel writer Pico Iyer; and covered a posthumous anthology by Brion Gysin, the Canadian multimedia poet who existed for 50 years on the leading edge of the Bohemian, Beat and Surrealist movements. Peranakan, Baba-Nyonya (峇峇娘惹) and Straits Chinese (after the Straits of Malacca) (土生華人) are terms used for the descendants of the early Chinese immigrants to Malacca on the Malay Peninsula, who spread through the British Straits Settlements of Singapore, Malacca and Penang, and as... A Chinese Malaysian (Mandarin: ma lai xi ya hua ren (馬來西亞華人), Hokkien: mah lai se ah hua kiao, Cantonese: mah lah zai wah kew (馬來西亞華僑), Bahasa Malaysia: fill-in) is an overseas Chinese who resides in Malaysia. ... Pico Iyer Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born Indian journalist and author. ... Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. ... Multimedia is the use of several media (e. ... Bohemians are inhabitants of Bohemia, Czech Republic. ... The term Beat Generation refers primarily to a group of American writers of the 1950s. ... Surrealism is an artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. ...

Along with American writer Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, she is the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey (Emeryville: Seal Press, 2006). This feminist compilation is her first book-length work although not her first experience evaluating and editing creative material (she spent a decade in New York and Los Angeles media and entertainment circles, working in operations and administration for literary agents and producers of film, television, and Broadway theatre.) The anthology, by 29 expatriate women from five nations, spans the length and breadth of Turkey as well as the last four decades as scholars, artists, missionaries, journalists, entrepreneurs and Peace Corps volunteers assimilate into Turkish friendship, neighborhood, wifehood, and motherhood. The expatriate literature collection is also published in Turkey, (Istanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2005) where it was a #1 national bestseller in January 2006, and has been translated into Turkish as Türkçe Sevmek (Istanbul: Doğan Kitap, 2005). An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... A literary agent represents writers and their written work to publishers and film producers, and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... An expatriate (in abbreviated form expat) is someone temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of their upbringing and/or legal residence. ... A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... Entrepreneurs created by Thomas Clarke in 2001. ... Peace Corps volunteers usually serve for two years. ... Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more social entities. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ... Look up mother in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural, and economic centre. ...

Ashman's personal essays, characterized by a decidedly feminine voice, a cultural cosmopolitanism and a sensitivity for social convention, appear in the humor travel collection The Thong Also Rises: Further Misadventures From Funny Women on the Road (Palo Alto: Travelers’ Tales, 2005) in which a sexy-voiced GPS in the family car spurs a wifely rivalry for favored navigator, and in The Subway Chronicles: Scenes From Life in New York (New York: Plume-Penguin, 2006), in which a gruesome stranger bearing an egg salad sandwich solves the problem of a couch-surfing visitor who has overstayed her welcome. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that Convention (norm) be merged into this article or section. ... GPS satellite in orbit, image courtesy NASA The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. ...

Ashman holds an undergraduate degree in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College and lives in Istanbul with her husband. Classical archaeology is a term given to archaeological investigation of the great Mediterranean civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome. ... Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural, and economic centre. ...

See also

• Lists of writers
• List of essayists
• List of women writers
• Travel writer
• List of people from California

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External links

• Official Website of Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey

• Doğan Kitap, Turkish publisher of Tales from the Expat Harem and Turkish version, Türkçe Sevmek

• Seal Press, North American publisher of Tales from the Expat Harem

• Official Website of The Thong Also Rises: Further Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road

• Official Website of The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York