Amanda began writing poetry in 2023 as a way to work creatively with illness. That same year, one of her first poems, “Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded,” won the Bridport Prize, one of the UK’s largest awards for a single poem, selected by Roger Robinson. Subsequent work has been a finalist for the Philadelphia Stories’ National Prize in Poetry, longisted for the UK’s National Poetry Competition, shortlisted for the 2024 Bridport Prize, and published in Rattle, Book XI, DMQ Review, and Dead End. “Chart Notes,” her erasure self-portrait made from her doctor’s notes, won the Brooklyn Poets’ Yawp Poem-of-the-Month, was the runner-up for the BKP Yawp Poem-of-the-Year, and her manuscript, No Obvious Distress, is forthcoming with John Murray Originals (UK) in July 2025. She co-edits the online ekphrastic poetry journal Metphrastics.

Published Poems
At the End of the High Line — Brooklyn Poets
Umwelt — Book XI
The Call - No Obvious Distress (forthcoming)
Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded — Bridport Prize Anthology
driving back from my oncologist, who just told us the cancer could be gone — DMQ Review
Haibun for Fish Out of Water — DMQ Review
Sestina — Rattle (artist’s selection, ekphrastic poetry contest)
Currency — Dead End