Amanda Hawkins

Amanda Hawkins’ first book of poetry, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, is out now with Wandering Aengus Press. They are a Tin House, Bread Loaf, and Melon Public Scholar and winner of the Editor’s Prize for poetry from The Florida Review, the Emerging Writer Award from Key West Literary Seminar, and the Wandering Aengus Book Award. They hold an MA in theological studies from Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., an MFA in Creative Writing from University of California, Davis, and are currently a PhD student in English. Find their poetry, lyric essay, and interviews in Orion, Terrain, Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Honey Literary, Tin House, The Rumpus, and Image. They live in Northern California with their family.

• Poetry
• Environmental humanities
• 20th-21st century American literature 
• Lyric essay
• Creative writing

• Poetics
• Queer and trans poetics
• Ecopoetics
• Critical geographies
• Critical race theory

• UC Davis, PhD in English, in process
• UC Davis, MFA in Creative Writing, 2022 
• Regent College, MA in Theological Studies, 2009
• Simpson University, BA in Theology, 2005

• Assistant Instructor in English, UC Davis
• Adjunct Professor in English, William Jessup University

• Provost First Year Fellowship
• Wandering Aengus Book Award, 2023
• Key West Literary Seminar's Emerging Writer Award, 2022
• Mellon Public Scholar, 2021
• The Florida Review's Editor's Prize for Poetry, 2020

• When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones (book, poetry)