About Aya

"I was raised in Springfield, Ohio. I am the youngest child and the only girl. Once I started writing, I never stopped. I wrote letters to my family; letters to the editor of my local newspaper; I joined a staff of writers at school; competed in Power of the Pen competitions and eventually studied magazine journalism at Ohio University."

Ashley Aya Ferguson is a writer, editor, author, and coach. To date, she has published three children’s picture books titled, Girl, You Are Magic!  Boy, You Are Brilliant! and I Am Not Afraid of Spiders.

After graduating Cum Laude from Ohio University’s Scripps School of Journalism, Ferguson spent time in New York interning for noteworthy magazines; but, returned to Ohio to raise her daughter with the village they both needed. 

Prior to her position as a content developer and strategist, Ferguson worked in marketing project management honing her productivity, budget, and time management skills. While serving as the sole provider, the only professional writing she got to do was creating emails that didn’t need to be meetings.

In order to work with words like she’d always dreamt of doing, she created a copywriting side hustle and called it, Copy & Content Boutique, LLC. She wrote proposals for PR firms, website copy for small businesses, blogs, and reviewed manuscripts for first-time self-published authors. Eventually, with enough clips, clout, and people to vouch for her, she returned to writing professionally, serving as a content marketing manager for a textile company in 2015.

Today, Ferguson uses her knowledge about content and storytelling to serve as a strategist for a technology company while writing books (and editing) in her spare time. She has been a featured author at schools, libraries, and bookstores and takes every opportunity to inspire others to tell their stories, too.