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Amy Wright [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer
Public address: 
PO Box 4487
Clarksville, TN 37044
Email: 
wrighta@apsu.edu
Phone: 
(931) 221-7714
Bio: 

Amy Wright is the author of two poetry books, one collaboration, and six chapbooks, including the prose collection Think I’ll Go Eat A Worm. Most recently her essays won first place in two contests, sponsored by London Magazine and Quarterly West. She has also received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her essays appear or are forthcoming in Brevity, Fourth Genre, Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, Waveform: Anthology of Women Essayists, and elsewhere.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Spanish
Twitter: 
https://twitter.com/amymwright
Born in: 
Wytheville, VA
Virginia
Website: 
http://www.awrightawright.com [2]
Prizes won: 

First Place Essay London Magazine Essay Contest, First Place, Writers@Work Essay Competition hosted by Quarterly West, Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship, to Peter Taylor Fellowships Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Emerging Nonfiction Writer at the Southern Women Writers Conference

Writers Retreats: 
Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
Identifies as: 
Appalachian
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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[2] http://www.awrightawright.com