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Amy

Amy Small-McKinney’s third full-length book of poems & You Think It Ends is forthcoming early 2025 (Glass Lyre Press). She’s the author of Walking Toward Cranes (winner of the Kithara Book Prize, Glass Lyre Press 2016) and 2022 chapbook, One Day I Am A Field written during COVID. Her poems have been published in numerous journals, for example American Poetry Review, Ilanot Review, Minyan Magazine, Tiferet, and Tahoma Literary Review, among others. She has contributed to several anthologies, including 101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, Edited by Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson (Ashland Poetry Press). Amy Small-McKinney is a Montgomery County PA Poet Laureate Emeritus, 2011. Her poems have also been translated into Romanian and Korean. Small-McKinney is a member of Yetzirah. She has a degree in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel and an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Small-McKinney resides in Philadelphia.
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February 23, 2025

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