Amy Wright

Amy Wright (she/her) grew up on a family farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in southwestern Virginia. She is the author of three books of poetry and six chapbooks as well as her nonfiction debut, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round (Sarabande Books, 2021), winner of the 2022 Nautilus Gold Award for Lyric Prose. She coedited and introduced the Virginia volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology (Texas Review Press, 2022). In her writing, she attends to the integration of nature, art, science, and culture. 

Wright has been awarded two Peter Taylor Fellowships for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was the Spring 2022 Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence at East Tennessee State University.