Amanda began writing poetry in 2023 as a way to work creatively with illness. That same year, one of her first poems, “Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded,” won the Bridport Prize, one of the UK’s largest awards for a single poem, selected by Roger Robinson. Subsequent work has been a finalist for the Philadelphia Stories’ National Prize in Poetry, longisted for the UK’s National Poetry Competition, and published in Rattle, DMQ Review, and Dead End. She is currently at work on a manuscript, Phone Sex in Post-Op.

Published Poems
Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded — Bridport Prize Anthology
driving back from my oncologist, who just told us the cancer could be gone — DMQ Review
Haibun for Fish Out of Water — DMQ Review
Sestina — Rattle (winner, ekphrastic poetry contest)
Currency — Dead End