Amy Award

The Amy Award is presented to women poets age 30 and under living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive an honorarium and a reading in New York City. The award was established in 1995 by Paula Trachtman and Edward Butscher of East Hampton, New York in memory of Ms. Trachtman’s daughter, Amy Rothholz, an actor and poet.

Winners of the 2008 Amy Award will be announced in August.

Past winners of the Amy Award are:

Alexandra Cordera
Dorene Evans
Shannon Holman
Ava Hu
Sarah Ruth Jacobs
K. Morgan Keenan
Amanda Lichtenberg
Kerry Ann Minto
Stella Padnos
Cecily Parks
Prudence Peiffer
Shabnam Piryaei
Frances Justine Post
Hila Ratzabi
Jendi Reiter
Jessica Saffer
Mrigaa Sethi
Laurie Siegal
Jessica Max Stein
Tamara Tiska
Wendy Wisner