Ama Birch

Ama Birch was born on the Lower East Side during a blizzard. She is the author of “(Spirit),” “The Bird Trade,” “Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Today,” “Faces in the Clouds,” “Sonnet Boom!,” and Ferguson Interview Project. Birch has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts Performance from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. Birch was published by Grove Atlantic, Hanging Loose Press, great weather for MEDIA, Autonomedia, Lonesome Press, Fordham University, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, Live Mag!, Fell Swoop, Apricity, Belladonna* Collaborative, Spiral Editions, Columbia University, May Revue, CUNY Graduate Center, Copenhagen, Luigi Ten Co., The Poetry Project, Pioneer Works, and The Brooklyn Rail. Birch was awarded a New York City Arts Corps grant and a Creatives Rebuild New York Guaranteed Income grant, and she has also received grants from The MAP Foundation, the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, and PEN America. She is an English professor at Hunter College in New York City. Visit www.amabirch.com to learn more about her work.