Amy Ash is the author of The Open Mouth of the Vase, winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award and the Etchings Press Whirling Prize post-publication book award. Her poems, prose, and collaborative work have been published in various journals and anthologies. Recent poems can be found in Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry, Remington Review, and I-70 Review. She is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Indiana State University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program.