Amanda Auchter (born 1977
Baytown,
Texas
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) is an American writer, professor, and editor. She is an editor and author of poetry, nonfiction essays, and book reviews.
Personal life
Amanda Auchter received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and English (
magna cum laude
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) from the
University of Houston
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, where she worked as an editorial assistant a
''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts''and was awarded the 2005 Howard Moss Poetry Award. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from
Bennington College, where she served as the editor of the
Bennington Review.
She is the editor of the literary magazine
''Pebble Lake Review'' She is the
author
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of the
books
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, "The Wishing Tomb," winner of th
Perugia Press Award, "The Glass Crib," winner of th
First Book Award for Poetry, judged b
''Rigoberto González,''and of the
chapbook
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, "Light Under Skin" (Finishing Line Press, 2006).
Awards and honors
*2012 Perugia Press Award
*2011 Southern Indiana Review/Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award
*2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for
Poetry
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*2009 Magliocco Prize for
Poetry
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,
Bellevue Literary Review
*2007 Theodore Morrison Scholarship in
Poetry
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for the
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
*2007 Finalist, Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from
The Poetry Foundation
*2006
BOMB Magazine Poetry
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Prize
*2005
James Wright Poetry Award from
Mid-American Review
*2005
Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Award from Harpur Palate
*2005
Bucknell University
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Younger Poets Fellowship
Books
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Works
"The Good Friday Flood, New Orleans, 1927", ''The Journal'', 2012*
ttps://archive.today/20130116233749/http://anti-poetry.com/auchteram2/ "Holt Cemetery, New Orleans", ''Anti-'', 2012"Tether", ''RHINO'', 2010"The Bottom Drawer", ''Bellevue Literary Review'', 2010"Nothing But the Shape", ''Bellevue Literary Review'', 2008"Down in the 9", ''Superstition Review'', 2010"Poem for the Adoptive Mother", ''Linebreak'', 2008by Amanda Auchter
by Amanda Auchter
Anthologies
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Best New Poets 2006
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Two Weeks: A Digital Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 2011
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The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review 2008
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DIAGRAM.2 Anthology 2006
References
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American women poets
1977 births
Living people
University of Houston alumni
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers