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, thePetaluma Poetry Walk, the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, the Art & Soul Festival's Oakland Literature Expo, Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Looking Glass Books and Broadway Books in Portland, the Sacramento Poetry Center 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. She is currently the Managing Editor of The Cortland Review. Her article "Social Networking and Poetry Publishing" appeared in the 2011 Poet's Market. She currently sits on the boards of Chautauqua Poets & Writers and the Oregon Poetry Association.

Weathering (Uttered Chaos Press, 2012), The Fragile Day (Spire Press, 2011)

Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems (Tupelo Press, 2013), Turn (Uttered Chaos Press, 2013), Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women (Haven Books, 2009), Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2006), So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach, 2003)

Broadsided Press, Cascadia Review, Cimarron Review, Cloudbank, Connotation Press, Folio, Hayden's Ferry Review, Linebreak, Naugatuck River Review, New Plains Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pearl Magazine, qarrtsiluni, Rattle, River Styx, South Dakota Review, Windfall A Journal of Poetry of Place, Wisconsin Review