Printable view of Amy Wright

Listed as:

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Johnson City, TN

Tennessee US

Email:

wrightam7@etsu.edu

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.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

Spanish

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

Born in:

Wytheville, VA

Virginia

Website:

https://www.awrightawright.com [2]

Prizes won:

London Magazine Essay Contest, Writers@Work [3] 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

Education:

University of Denver

What I'm reading now:

The Truth of the Matter by Dinty W. Moore

Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson

Writers Retreats:

Sewanee Writers’ Conference

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Identifies as:

Appalachian

Prefers to work with:

Any