Amanda Galvan Huynh, a Chicana poet from Texas, is a recipient of a 2017 Sewanee Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship, a 2017 Sundress Academy for the Arts Residency, a 2016 AWP Intro Journal Project Award, and was a finalist for the 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. Her work can be found in RHINO Poetry, Muzzle Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Silk Road Review, The Boiler Journal, and others. At MacDowell she completed her first poetry collection which centers around her familial experience working in the fields in Texas and the maternal wisdom passed down generations. In addition, she wrote 25 new poems, two essays, two book reviews, finished co-editing a poetic craft anthology, and read 33 books.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Amanda Galvan Huynh
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Middletown, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018
More:
amandagalvanhuynh.com
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Where My Umbilical Is Buried (Poetry Collection)
Studios
Veltin
Amanda Galvan Huynh worked in the Veltin studio.
Veltin Studio was donated by alumni of the Veltin School, a school for girls in New York with a highly respected visual arts department. As the plaque just outside the entrance attests, this studio was used by poet Edwin Arlington Robinson during most of the 24 summers he spent at MacDowell. Perhaps most famously, Thornton Wilder put the finishing…