Ashanti Celeste is not yet an award-winning writer but hopes to accumulate as many prestigious prizes as will fit in her closet (it’s pretty small, but still). It’s a sassy world out there, and she aims to alkalize the acidity with her obnoxious and sometimes sophomoric wit. AC is a genre-non-conformist, but comedy does often soften her macabre tendencies and a nice dark fantasy? Oh, those can get her blood a-boilin’ (I’m looking at you, Guillermo del Toro). She also happened to be raised on period romance novels, sooo... she has higher than acceptable expectations for this modern reality.