Ama Birch

Poet

Ozone Park, NY
New York US
Website: 
www.amabirch.com

Author's Bio

Ama Birch was born on the Lower East Side during a blizzard. She is the author of (Spirit), The Bird Trade, Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Today, Faces in the Clouds, Sonnet Boom!, and Ferguson Interview Project. Birch’s writings are published online, in-print, and in several anthologies.

Education: 
California Institute of the Arts MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Pathetic Literature (Grove Press, 2022)
,
From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream (Autonomedia, 2017)
Chapbook:
(Spirit) (Belladonna Books, 2022)
Journal:
A Gathering of the Tribes
Prizes won: 

Faculty Travel Award Hunter College, Creatives Rebuild New York’s Guaranteed Income for Artists, MAP Fund, Micrograntee, Atlantic Center of the Arts, City Arts Corps Grant, Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant, NYFA Artist as Entrepreneur, California Institute of the Arts Dean of Critical Studies Grant

 

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Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight, Bob Kaufman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Phillip Larkin, Marianne Moore, Sonia Sanchez, Jane Cortez, William Butler Yeats, Matsuo Bashō, Li Bai, Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and Geoffrey Chaucer
What I'm reading now: 
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
African American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Brooklyn, NY
New York
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Last update: Aug 06, 2026