Poet, fiction-writer, essayist and teacher, Amy Pence is a graduate
    of Denison University and the University of Arizona's M.F.A. program.

    Her poetry collection, The Decadent Lovely, is forthcoming from Main
    Street Rag Publishing Company. She also authored the chapbook Skin's
    Dark Night (2River Press). Her poetry has appeared in a number of
    journals, including New American Writing, Oxford American, Quarterly
    West, and The Antioch Review, and her poetry collections have been
    finalists for several contests, including the Walt Whitman Award.

    Amy's short stories appear in Storyglossia and Silk Road, among others.
    Poets & Writers has featured her literary profiles of writers Paul Guest,
    Li-Young Lee, and Barbara Kingsolver. She's published essays in The
    Writer's Chronicle and Sonora Review.

    Amy spent her childhood in New Orleans and her adolescence in Las
    Vegas, and she has settled in the woods of Georgia with her husband
    and her daughter.

    She teaches college English and informal poetry workshops, and is
    available for readings and poetry workshops. She may be reached for
    workshops and readings by email.