Amanda Rachelle Warren

Poet

Aiken, SC
South Carolina US

Author's Bio

Warren is a native of Ohio with family and cultural roots in Appalachia but has lived and worked in South Carolina since 2008. Warren's poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Tusculum Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Appalachian Heritage, Anderbo, the Beloit Poetry Journal, and other journals. Warren received their master’s in creative writing from Ohio University and their doctorate in creative writing with a focus on poetry and Appalachian literature from Western Michigan University. Their chapbook, Ritual no.3: For the Exorcism of Ghosts, was selected by Kwame Dawes as a winner of the 2009 South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition and was published by Stepping Stone Press in 2010. They are the 2017 recipient of the Nickens Poetry Fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors and have recently been featured in Lamar University Press' Southern Voices: 50 Contemporary Poets. Their first full-length collection, Rituals for to Call Down Light, was published by Finishing Line Press in August 2024. 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Rituals for to Call Down Light (Finishing Line Press, 2024)
Chapbook:
Ritual no.3: For the Exorcism of Ghosts (Stepping Stone Press, 2010)
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Meat for Tea: The Valley Review
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Quarter After Eight
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Ray's Road Review
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Riverwind
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ROAR Magazine
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Santa Clara Review
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South 85 Journal
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Terminus
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Prizes won: 

Preliminary Finalist, 2022 Able Muse Book Award, 2022 • Finalist, Fjords Review Press, 2022 • Finalist, Driftwood Press, Poetry Collection Contest, 2022 •Finalist, Cider Press Review Award, 2022 • Finalist, for Saluda River Prize, 2021 • Finalist, 2019 Literary Contest, Still: Poetry Journal, 2019. • Winner, Causeway Lit Spring 2017 Poetry Contest •Winner, Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship, 2017 • 3rd Place, Nickens McCray Poetry Competition, South Carolina Writer's Association, 2017• Causeway Lit Spring 2017 Poetry Contest • Finalist, Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship competition for 2011. • Winner, 2009 South Carolina Poetry Initiative Chapbook Competition, Ritual no.3: For the Exorcism of Ghosts, 2010. • Finalist, 14th Annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize Competition, Some Grain of Absolute Among the Trembling, 2009. • Semi-Finalist, University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series, Some Grain of Absolute Among the Trembling, 2009. • Honorable Mention, 9th Annual Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award, “Boneyfiddle: Floodgate,” 2009. • Honorable Mention, Emerging Writers Contest Winners, Berry College Southern Women Writers Conference, “You Did Not Seem the Boy,” 2009. • Recipient, Wood Institute Travel Grant, F.C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2009. • Finalist, 2009 Tupelo Press 10th annual First Book Award for Poetry Manuscript, Some Grain of Absolute among the Trembling, Tupelo Press, 2009. • Finalist, 2009 Beatrice Hawley Award for Poetry Manuscript, Some Grain of Absolute among the Trembling. Alice James Books, 2009. • Finalist, 2008 Tupelo Press 9th annual First Book Award for Poetry Manuscript, Ridge-Runner, Tupelo Press, 2008. • Semi-Finalist, 2008 Beatrice Hawley Award for Poetry Manuscript, Ridge-Runner. Alice James Books, 2008. • Finalist, Chicago Poetry Center’s 14th Annual Juried Reading. “Letters”-April 2008. E. Ethelbert Miller, Judge. • Competition Winner, Broadsided Switcheroo II Broadside, “Bird’s Eye/ Mumuration” with Artist Kate Baird—November 1, 2007.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Appalachian, Feminist, Southern
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Columbus, OH
Ohio
Raised in: 
Columbus, OH
Ohio
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Last update: Aug 08, 2024