Amy writes about books, art, culture, and the environment. She is the Deputy Publisher of Guernica magazine and the Senior Editor of the Chicago Review of Books, where she writes a monthly column called “Burning Worlds.” It explores how contemporary fiction addresses issues of climate change. Her writing has also appeared or is forthcoming in the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice, the Dallas Morning News, Pacific Standard, the New Republic, Literary Hub, and other places.
She frequently gives lectures at conferences and college campuses around the country about how art and literature can effect social change. Sometimes she appears on podcasts. (If you listen closely, you can hear her cats meowing in her lap.)
She received her PhD in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is the recipient of a CLIR/Mellon Library of Congress Fellowship. She hails from Topeka, Kansas, and lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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