Amanda Ngoho Reavey

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Milwaukee, WI
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Author's Bio

Amanda Ngoho Reavey is a Philippine-born, Wisconsin-raised poet interested in ethnoautobiography. Influences include Leny Strobel, Juergen Werner Kremer, Robin Wall Kimmerer and others. She is the author of Marilyn (The Operating System), winner of the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies, and her poems and essays appear in Construction Literary Magazine, Anthropoid, TRUCK, and Evening Will Come, among others.

Currently, Reavey is a Poetry Fellow at Black Earth Institute, and a PhD student in Creative Writing–Poetry at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. She received an MFA in Writing in Poetics from Naropa University. 

Publications & Prizes

Book:
Marilyn (Operating System, 2015)
Prizes won: 

2017 Best Book Award in Poetry, Association for Asian American Studies

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Filipino American
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Seniors
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Manila
Philippines
Raised in: 
WI
Wisconsin
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Last update: Mar 22, 2021