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Amy Pence

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Amy Pence authored the poetry collections The Decadent Lovely and Armor, Amour as well as the chapbooks Skin’s Dark Night and Your Posthumous Dress: Remnants from the Alexander McQueen Collection (dancing girl press, 2019). Her hybrid book with Emily Dickinson at its speculative center— [It] Incandescent – (Ninebark, 2018) won the Eyelands International Poetry Award in Athens, Greece. We Travel Towards It (Serving House Press, 2025) attentive to climate change’s losses, both collective and personal, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She’s also published short fiction, interviews, and essays in a variety of magazines, including The Writer’s Chronicle and Poets & Writers. Red Hen Press released her debut novel, Yellow, in 2026. She taught c ...more

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