Ashley Wylde is a queer and gender nonbinary writer, activist, and travel enthusiast. Having written poetry since an early age, she began competing in poetry slams in January 2012, and attended the Women of The World Poetry Slam in March of that year in Denver, Colorado.

Wylde publishes YouTube videos weekly on her channel Ashley’s Wylde Life, and is the creator of The Gender Tag Project, a project exploring the complex ideas of sex, gender roles, gender identity, and gender expression which has inspired over 650 individual videos responses. Her work on The Gender Tag Project also sparked an invitation to speak at TEDxCSU 2016, and she continues to give speeches and facilitate workshops on the subject to university audiences.