Amy Wright

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Johnson City, TN
Tennessee US
Email: 
wrightam7@etsu.edu
Website: 
www.awrightawright.com

Author's Bio

Amy Wright joined the faculty at East Tennessee State University after serving as their 2022 Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric, and Science. She has authored three poetry books, six chapbooks, and her nonfiction debut, Paper Concert (Sarabande Books), received a Nautilus Gold Award for Lyric Prose. She has also received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Education: 
University of Denver PhD
Writers Retreats: 
Sewanee Writers’ Conference
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Chapbook:
Think I'll Go Eat a Worm (Iris Press, 2019)
Journal:
Georgia Review

Poetry

Books:
Cracker Sonnets (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2016)
,
Creeks of the Upper South (Unicorn Press, 2016)
,
Everything in the Universe (Iris Press, 2016)
Chapbooks:
Rhinestones in the Bed, or Cracker Crumbs (Dancing Girl Press, 2014)
,
The Garden Will Give You A Fat Lip (Pavement Saw Press, 2012)
,
Farm (Finishing Line Press, 2010)
,
There Are No New Ways to Kill A Man (Apostrophe Books, 2009)
Prizes won: 

London Magazine Essay Contest, Writers@Work Essay Competition hosted by Quarterly West, Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship, two Peter Taylor Fellowships Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Emerging Nonfiction Writer at the Southern Women Writers Conference

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Dorothy Allison, David Baker, Zoë Bossiere, Annie Dillard, Brian Doyle, Kimiko Hahn, Barbara Kingsolver, Kiese Laymon, Eric LeMay, Michael Martone, Dinty W. Moore, Margaret Renkl, Ira Sukrungruang
What I'm reading now: 
The Truth of the Matter by Dinty W. Moore, Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Appalachian
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Spanish
Born in: 
Wytheville, VA
Virginia
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Last update: Jan 20, 2025