Amy MacLennan

Poet

Ashland, OR
Oregon US

Author's Bio

Amy MacLennan grew up on the peninsula south of San Francisco, and she now makes her home in Oregon's Rogue Valley. Amy received a Master of Arts in English from Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She has appeared at the San Francisco Lit Crawl, the Petaluma Poetry Walk, the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Looking Glass Books and Broadway Books in Portland, the Windfall Reading Series in Eugene, and Cody’s Books in Berkeley. Amy has taught poetry workshops through the Sequoia Adult School, Oregon Poetic Voices, the Oregon Poetry Association and at the Northwest Poets' Concord. Her article "Social Networking and Poetry Publishing" appeared in the 2011 Poet's Market. Amy's work has been featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor and Verse Daily. She is currently a Poetry Editor for Bone Bouquet.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Drawn to Marvel: Poems from the Comic Books (Minor Arcana Press, 2014)
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Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's (Barefoot Muse Press, 2013)
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Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems (Tupelo Press, 2013)
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Turn (Uttered Chaos Press, 2013)
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Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009)
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Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women (Haven Books, 2009)
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Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2006)
Book:
The Body, A Tree (MoonPath Press, 2016)
Chapbooks:
Weathering (Uttered Chaos Press, 2012)
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The Fragile Day (Spire Press, 2011)
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Connotation Press
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Pearl Magazine
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Poet's Market
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Spillway
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The Oregonian
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Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place
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Prizes won: 

2005 Devils Tower Writer's Residency, 2017 Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award Finalist, 2020 Hubbub Magazine Vi Gale Award

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
San Mateo
Raised in: 
San Carlos, CA
California
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Last update: Dec 19, 2020