Ashtyn Vandiver

It is well with my soul • Kentuckian

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

I’m very excited to be back at my alma mater, working on the communications team for @UKAgriculture.

Details forthcoming on my introductory press conference—I expect it’ll be the biggest of the week.

Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat 😸

[Ashtyn Vandiver @vandiver14]

MY BEST FRIEND wrote an article about the culture surrounding Cocaine Bear for the Washington Post!

[𝙺𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚑𝚎𝚛 @viakristopher]

My best friend wrote an article about the culture surrounding Cocaine Bear for the Washington Post, you should read it.

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

That’s my sister in blue 💙💛

[Ashtyn Vandiver @vandiver14]

@joeimel Found this girl roaming on Champions in Hidden River subdivision. It looks like she has had a collar on. She is playful but timid. Please let me know if you know her.

[kiss your darlings (a print anthology) @kissurdarlings]

✨contributor spotlight✨ lovers, meet bailey vandiver! her fav tswift song is last great american dynasty, except when she wants to cry, then it's long live. @baivandiver's brilliant hybrid piece 'i'll write your name' will be featured in our anthology 💖 show her some love!

[Porridge Magazine @porridgemag]

"My homecoming coincided with Alice Allison Dunnigan’s. That was purposeful. Over the past year, who Alice Allison Dunnigan was had become a central part of my love for my state."

@baivandiver on the forces that pull us home

https://t.co/oQaznaxxhB

[Ashtyn Vandiver @vandiver14]

@KYSUag Arnold!

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

My first creative nonfiction publication EVER is in this issue!

I’m so thankful to the @ayaskala team for publishing my piece, “Christmas China,” alongside so much beautiful work!

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

Publication day—

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

I know we’re all still listening to #RedTaylorsVersion but I got to write about Taylor Swift’s narrative tactic in my favorite “folklore” song and how it’s used in creative nonfiction:
https://t.co/IXVo70CHqJ

[Kentucky Volleyball @KentuckyVB]

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

KENTUCKY HAS WON THE 2020 NCAA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

#WeAreUK

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

This year, there were two Vandiver women on UK’s campus.

Here is my advice for ⁦@vandiver14⁩ now that I’ve graduated, for ⁦@krnl_lf⁩: https://t.co/8mLGvrgE8G

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

Family 5K in the neighborhood this morning! Even our dog, Bluegrass, was sporting UK on his leash.

#FirstSaturdayinMayVirtual5K

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

Day 25: @vandiver14 has joined in on the breadmaking trend. Today was her third batch and the bread is delicious.

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

Good morning on day 11!

You know life is weird when Blue actually looks at the camera for a post-walk selfie.

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

My dad said he would tweet some #girldad photos but he doesn’t know how. I’ll tweet for him instead.

Last summer, on a family cruise, we went to the ship’s club. My dad danced with us, his three daughters, and he told his mom, “I want them to remember I danced with them.”

[Ashtyn Vandiver @vandiver14]

@baivandiver The tradition continues

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

Last year on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, @vandiver14 and I were coming back from Walmart when I made a dumb left turn and we got hit by a Ford F-150.

Hours later, I finally stopped crying when I realized that these could’ve been the last photos ever taken of Ashtyn.

[University of Kentucky @universityofky]

Congratulations to the @KyKernel on winning the 2019 Pacemaker award for being one of the best student newspapers in the country! This is just one of the several awards the paper received last week. https://t.co/szV0YqnQfr

[Bailey Vandiver @baivandiver]

No one, and I mean no one, was surprised that @mckennahorsley and I cried when @KyKernel won a Pacemaker this weekend. Thanks, @Jordanprather18, for documenting our crying and @ladd_sarah laughing at our crying.