• Amy Lawless
  • Amy Lawless
  • Instructor
  • Bio:

    Amy Lawless is the author of the poetry collections My Dead and Broadax, both from Octopus Books. And a chapbook A Women Alone (Sixth Finch). She is also coauthor of the poem/essay hybrid text I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press. Her work has been anthologized in the Brooklyn Poets anthology, Best American Poetry, and Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion from the Academy of American Poets (Abrams Image).  She was the recipient of a NYFA poetry fellowship. Poems have appeared widely both in print and online, most recently in The Recluse, The Poetry Project's annual literary magazine, Poetry Northwest, and VIDA Review. (Photo credit: Theo Cote)