news | Saturday July 18, 2026

An Interview with Jenn Ashton on Windspeaker.com

Shari Narine interviews Jenn Ashton, author of Growing My Way Home for Windspeaker.com. The pair discuss the merits of the designation of autofiction, and coming home to oneself.

From the article: “Building a greenhouse wasn’t metaphorical. Ashton did build an actual greenhouse.

Ashton tried to grow her plants in the greenhouse before the planting season and ran into numerous problems. In the end, she gradually moved the plants outdoors and put them in the ground.

‘When I look back at how my life was, I can see all of the things that were trying to get me back to where I was supposed to be. I think I was trying to have dominion over this place, and it was going to be my redo and I was going to do it right. And when I look at it now, I think, “Oh, that is such a colonized way of thinking that I was lord over these plants and everything and making this perfect place for them.” I was actually shutting out nature in that greenhouse,’ she said.”

Read the full piece here.