Amy Butcher is the author of Visiting Hours (Blue Rider Press/Penguin-Random House) and the forthcoming Mothertrucker (Little A Books, 2022) and an essayist with work in The New York Times, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, The Rumpus, The Paris Review online, Tin House online, and Brevity, among others. Her essay “Reenacting” was awarded the 2014 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction, as judged by David Shields, as well as a notable distinction in Best American Essays 2016. Additional work has twice been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, anthologized in Tell It True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction and The Best Of Vela, and earned finalist distinctions in contests sponsored by Tupelo Quarterly, American Short Fiction, and Hunger Mountain, among others. She is the 2012 recipient of the Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing fellowship, sponsored by Colgate University, as well as grants and awards from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, Word Riot Inc., and the Stanley Foundation for International Research. She teaches writing at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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