Amy Dryansky

Amy Dryansky’s (she/her) third poetry collection, Ambergris, is out now from Pine Row Press. Her first book, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, the second, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry) received the Massachusetts Book Award. A former poet laureate of Northampton, MA, she’s also received honors from the Poetry Society of America, MacDowell, Massachusetts Cultural Council and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Individual poems appear widely in journals, as well as several anthologies. Amy parents two children, and cared for her partner, who had ALS, for several years until his passing. She has written extensively about that experience and is currently developing community-based workshops for caregivers and grievers. She lives in rural western Massachusetts on Pocumtuck ancestral lands.