Oak Ayling

Writer | Illustrator | Filmmaker

Yes, yes, it's true, you are human. That awkward, brittle, fleshy, entitled earth-suit, sewn up around an infinite cluster of majesty.

This body is a difficult thing to drive, don't be so hard on yourself.

Oak Ayling

Obligatory Author Bio...

Upon the blurry windswept border between the English counties of Cornwall and Devon lies a small farmhouse, wherein resides a dog. The Dog belongs to a woman. The woman is Oak Ayling.

"Oak Ayling is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and closet librarian. Her debut pamphlet 'With Love from the Curator' was released on the 11th of January 2021, through Indigo Dreams Publishing.

You can read more about the pamphlet and order "With Love from the Curator via Indigo Dreams Publishing.

Oak's other works can be found in various literary magazines and in print anthologies 'For the Silent' from Indigo Dreams Publishing & 'Light Through the Mist' from author Helen Cox."

If you are searching for any of my materials published by the above mentioned brilliant and extraordinary literary magazines you can find links to their websites here.

If you'd like to know more about Oak Ayling the living human woman then I would be glad to offer you these insights...

Her favourite cuisine is Breakfast Food.
Her favourite colour is Navy Blue, although she is somewhat of a magpie for copper.
She has an innordinate level of appreciation for socks and knitwear.
Oak once spent the night under Hope, the blue whale, in the London Natural History Museum.
Oak Ayling is very fond of the works of these poets: Steve Scafidi, Yehuda Amichai, John Wood, Mary Oliver, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Shea Stripling, Joe Pug, Neil Young, Caleb Femi, Egon Schiele, Andrew Bird, John Moreland, Joel Van Horne, Hanif Abdurraqib, Philip Levine, Clint Smith & Chris Porterfield.