Amanda Ngoho Reavey

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.