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Amy Sailer

Amy Sailer
Instructor of Creative Writing
College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Arts, English and Art History
College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing

About Amy

Currently, Amy Sailer studies poetry at the University of Utah and teaches creative writing at Arts Camp and Interlochen Online. Her poetry has appeared in Quarterly West, New South, Meridian, Burnside Review, and elsewhere. She received the 2020 Wabash Prize for Poetry from the Sycamore Review. Before moving to Salt Lake City, she worked with gifted middle school students in the Academically Talented Youth Program in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Poet Elizabeth Bishop said that writing requires "a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration." I help students cultivate the practice of concentration in their writing, a close attention to the minutiae of themselves, their worlds, and their language.

  • Editor-in-Chief, Quarterly West
  • Ph.D. Student, University of Utah
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, Western Michigan University
  • 2020 Wabash Prize in Poetry from Sycamore Review

B.A., English and Art History - Virginia Commonwealth University

M.F.A., Creative Writing - Western Michigan University