Ashley Broussard is a writer from Lafayette, Louisiana—an insurance agent by day and an aspiring novelist by night. She writes emotionally resonant fiction that explores silence, inheritance, and the fragile architectures of love.

She is the author of The Marriage Audit, a contemporary literary novel praised for its raw honesty, intimate detail, and emotional precision. With a 4.4-star average from early readers, the novel has been called “unflinching” and “quietly devastating”—a story that lays bare the quiet undoing, and possible rebuilding, of a marriage.

Her second novel, The Weight of Ash and Prayer, moves between present-day and Civil War–era Louisiana, tracing one woman’s search for the truth hidden in her family’s past. Lyrical, layered, and steeped in atmospheric detail, the novel holds a 4.5-star average and has been described as “gorgeous, immersive, and unforgettable.

Her third novel, Permission, is coming soon. A provocative and intimate story of marriage, desire, and the high-stakes tension between freedom and fidelity, it continues Broussard’s exploration of emotional complexity and modern love.

When she’s not writing, Ashley Broussard is spending time with her little Broussard family—a spirited Schnauzer named Max, and a calico cat named Penny who thinks she owns the place. You’ll often find her on the porch with a cup of strong coffee, watching how the light shifts across the eaves like memory. She believes in handwritten letters, anything pink, slow mornings, and the kind of stories that leave something behind.