Amie Whittemore
Creative Writing Instructor Email: awhittemore@eiu.eduWebsite: http://www.amiewhittemore.com
INTRODUCTION
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.
Education & Training
MFA - Southern Illinois University Carbondale
MAT - Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education
BA - University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
Publications
Books:
Nest of Matches. Autumn House Press (2024)
Star-Tent: A Triptych. Tolsun Books (2023)
Glass Harvest. Autumn House Press (2016)