Amy Lawless

Poet

NY
New York US
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Author's Bio

Amy Lawless is the author of the poetry collections My Dead and Broadax, both from Octopus Books. With Chris Cheney, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press' Groundworks Series (2016). A chapbook A Woman Alone was published by Sixth Finch in 2017. Poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry (a collaboration with Angela Veronica Wong), Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology. Poems are widely available online and in print. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011, and lives in Brooklyn.

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Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Best American Poetry (Scribner, 2013)
Books:
Broadax (Octopus Books, 2017)
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My Dead (Octopus Books, 2013)
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Noctis Licentia (Black Maze Books, 2008)
Journals:
Agriculture Reader
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Barrow Street
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Forklift, Ohio
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H_NGM_N
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Octopus Magazine
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Pax Americana
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Ping Pong
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Red China Magazine
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Scapegoat Review
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The Portable Boog City Reader
Prizes won: 

2011 NYFA Fellowship, Poetry

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Irish American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
Raised in: 
Boston, MA
Massachusetts
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Last update: Jun 22, 2019