Amanda Gunn is the author of Things I Didn’t Do With This Body (Copper Canyon Press) and is a Ph.D. candidate in English at Harvard. Raised in Connecticut, she worked as a medical copyeditor for 13 years before earning an M.F.A. in poetry from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. She is the recipient of the Missouri Review Editor’s Prize, the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize, and has received fellowships from the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.
While at MacDowell, Gunn continued writing her second poetry manuscript as well as a nonfiction piece on the work of Chicago poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000). Selections from the poetry manuscript have won the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize and appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Doek! Literary Magazine of Namibia, and Pairs.
