About Me

Ashish Seth is a writer and high school teacher from Brampton, Ontario. He writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Seth has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph. In 2009, he published his first book, Come on Baby Take a Chance with Us: Issues in Psilocybin Mushroom Use, a collection of essays on the scientific study of psilocybin mushrooms. His piece “Paul the Fox: A Biographical Portrait” won runner up in Epiphany Literary Journal’s 2017 Creative Nonfiction contest in New York. Seth served as an editor on Communicating Science, a science writing textbook that was developed for University of Toronto’s professional writing program. His most recent publication is a piece of nonfiction writing titled “Port Hotel” for Puritan Magazine. Seth serves as the secretary on the board for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) in Brampton. He is currently working on his first novel, a literary thriller, The Cleaner.