Amanda Gunn’s debut poetry collection, “Things I Didn’t Do With This Body”, was published by Copper Canyon Press. Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copy editor for 13 years before earning an MFA in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and MacDowell. She is a PhD candidate in English and American Literature at Harvard.
