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 doctoral candidate in English at Harvard where she studies Black poetry. 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, was published in 2023 by Copper Canyon Press.
Selected Poems
Poetry: “Araminta” and “Mystic
Narrative Magazine: “Prayer,” “Baker,” “Return,” “Tyrant,” and “Kaleidoscope”
Switchyard: Good
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”
Features & Reviews
Poets and Writers Magazine: “Performing the Future: Our Nineteenth Annual Look at Debut Poets” (with India Lena González)
Poetry Unbound: Pádraig Ó Tuama on “Ordinary Sugar”
Poetry Foundation: Cindy Juyoung Ok on Things I Didn’t Do With This Body
32 Poems Online: “Emerging Poet Feature” (with Sarah Rose Nordgren)
Mentor & Muse: “How Do You Know It’s the End? A Roundtable on Poetic Closure” (with D.S. Waldman)