ABOUT AMY PENCE

Author Amy Pence’s work spans poetry, hybrid, fiction, interviews, and essays. Her full-length poetry collections include Armor, Amour (Ninebark, 2012) and The Decadent Lovely (Main Street Rag, 2010). Her hybrid book, [It] Incandescent (Ninebark Press, 2018), winner of the Eyelands International Poetry Award in Athens, Greece, blends fiction, poetry, and scholarship.

In 2019, Amy launched her chapbook, Your Posthumous Dress: Remnants from the Alexander McQueen Collection (dancing girl press), with a unique fashion/art reading that supported a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis.

We Travel Towards It, to be released by Serving House Books in Spring 2025, explores both loss and the necessary resilience and insight needed in the face of climate change-induced natural disasters.

She’s published stories in a variety of literary magazines and her debut novel Yellow will be released by Red Hen Press in 2026.

She’s taught composition and poetry for many years, including at Emory University, and continues to tutor students in Atlanta.

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