Amy Lawless is the author of three books of poems including My Dead (2013) and Broadax (2017), both from Octopus Books. A chapbook A Woman Alone was published by Sixth Finch earlier this year. With Chris Cheney, she is the author of the hybrid book I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected from Pioneer Works Press' Groundworks Series (2016). Poems have been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2013, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion, and the Brooklyn Poets Anthology (Brooklyn Arts Press). Individual poems have appeared widely in print and online publications. She received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn. She teaches at Rutgers New Brunswick, CUNY, Bowery Poetry Club, and Pioneer Works.
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