Amanda Gunn grew up just at the edge of the woods in southern Connecticut with two older brothers. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, she is a PhD candidate in English at Harvard where she studies poetry, ephemerality, and Black pleasure. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal, and Narrative Magazine. Her debut collection, Things I Didn’t Do With This Body, is out now from Copper Canyon Press.
Selected Poems
Poetry: “Araminta” and “Mystic
Narrative Magazine: “Prayer,” “Baker,” “Return,” “Tyrant,” and “Kaleidoscope”
The Cortland Review: “Morning at Crash Boat Beach”
Tupelo Quarterly: “The Name For,” “Good Romance,” and “Level”
Colorado Review: “To Kati Who Doesn’t Remember”
Poetry Northwest: “hystersisters.com”
The Baffler: “Notes on a Dream of Dying”
Press
Poets and Writers Magazine: “Performing the Future: Our Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets”