Magic, Mourning & Trusting Your Gut: Ashley Poston on The Someday Garden

Author Ashley Poston returns to Chapter Chat for her second appearance. This time she talks about her latest release, The Someday Garden. Ashley shares her approach to magical realism and how she blends fantasy and contemporary elements to create stories that feel both grounded and wondrous. We dig into the novel’s powerful themes of grief, including how Ashley has written through grief in her own life and why she sees it as a pendulum, swinging through moments of loss, then back toward joy, hope, and happiness. Ashley also opens up about the writing process behind The Someday Garden, learning not to second-guess herself, and how trusting her instincts became essential to finishing the book. And before she goes, Ashley teases what’s ahead. She reveals her next project is taking a different trajectory, including a pause on magical realism.