Brandon Amico

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Brandon Amico is the author of a collection of poetry, DISAPPEARING, INC. (Gold Wake Press, 2019), and is a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

He is the recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Grant and the Hoepfner Literary Award for poetry, awarded by Southern Humanities Review. His poetry can be found in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2020, The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Booth, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New South, Slice, and Waxwing, and featured on Verse Daily. His reviews have been featured by 32 Poems, AGNI Online, The Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, The Rumpus, and Southern Humanities Review. Brandon is a reader for Orison Books, and was a 2017 BOAAT Retreat Fellow.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2020

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