Amy Award

Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive a modest honorarium and give 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.

The 2011 Amy Award Winners are Caitlin Doyle, Courtney Kampa, and Jenny Xie. Read biographies of the winners and excerpts from their winning entries. 

Jenny Xie, Paula Trachtman, and Courtney Kampa. Not pictured: Caitlin Doyle.
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Past winners of the Amy Award are:

• Genevieve Burger-Weiser
• Lisabeth Burton 
• Alexandra Cordera 
• Dorene Evans 
• K.D. Henley 
• Shannon Holman
• Ava Hu
• Sarah Ruth Jacobs
• Simone Kearney
• K. Morgan Keenan
• Eugenia Leigh
• Amanda Lichtenberg
• Kerry Ann Minto
• Annabelle Moseley
• Idra Novey
• Stella Padnos 
• Cecily Parks 
• Prudence Peiffer
• Shabnam Piryaei
• Frances Justine Post
• Hila Ratzabi 
• Jendi Reiter
• Anne Marie Rooney
• Jessica Saffer 
• Mrigaa Sethi
• Laurie Siegal 
• Jessica Max Stein 
• Leigh Stein
• Tamara Tiska
• Alexandra Wilder
• Wendy Wisner