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, the Petaluma Poetry Walk, the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival, Bloomsbury Books in Ashland, Looking Glass Books and Broadway Books in Portland, the Windfall Reading Series in Eugene, 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. Her article "Social Networking and Poetry Publishing" appeared in the 2011 Poet's Market. Amy's work has been featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor and Verse Daily. She is currently a Poetry Editor for Bone Bouquet.