Amy Lemmon is the author of two collections of poetry, Fine Motor (Sow's Ear Poetry Review Press, 2008) and Saint Nobody (Red Hen Press, 2008) and co-author, with Denise Duhamel, of ABBA: The Poems (Coconut Books, 2010) and Enjoy Hot or Iced: Poems in Conversation and a Conversation (Slapering Hol Press, 2011).
Her poems and essay have appeared in Rolling Stone, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Verse, Marginalia, and other magazines. Her poem "Karyotype" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the editors of Barrow Street and published as a limited edition broadside (created by artist Amber McMillan) by the Center for Book Arts. She has contributed reviews and articles to New Letters, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry, and the Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century British Poetry. In 2006 she was awarded the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press.
Work from ABBA:The Poems, a sequence written in collaboration with Denise Duhamel, appears in The Birmingham Review, Paterson Literary Review, and at lafovea.org. She is poetry editor of the online literary magazine Ducts.org.
Amy holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati and is a Professor in the English and Speech Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
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