Amie Whittemore

Amie Whittemore

Personal profile

Contact Information

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.amiewhittemore.com

About

Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of the poetry collections Glass Harvest (Autumn House Press), Star-tent: A Triptych (Tolsun Books), and Nest of Matches (Autumn House). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her poems and prose have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Nashville Review, Smartish Pace, Pleiades, and elsewhere. 

Publications

Books: 

Nest of Matches. Autumn House Press (2024)

Star-Tent: A Triptych. Tolsun Books (2023)

Glass Harvest. Autumn House Press (2016)

Education/Academic qualification

MAT, Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education

MFA, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

BA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign