Amy Sayre Baptista

Amy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions 2017, Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. She is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Primitivity (Black Lawrence Press, 2018). She has received a SAFTA fellowship, a CantoMundo Poetry fellowship, and a scholarship  to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal. She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul, a Portuguese-American artist’s collective, and Poetry While You Wait. She is a cofounder of Plates&Poetry, a community arts program focused on food and writing. She earned an MFA in fiction at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and she teaches humanities at Western Governors University. She lives in Illinois.