Amy Beeder | Blackbird v11n1

Amy Beeder is the author of Burn the Field (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006). A new book, Now Make An Altar , will appear from the same press in early 2012. Her work has appeared in Poetry , Ploughshares, The Nation, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review , AGNI , and other journals. She has received the Discovery/ The Nation Award, a Bread Loaf Scholarship, and a Witness Emerging Writers Award. She teaches poetry at the University of New Mexico. Photo by Thomas Mellin

Photo by Thomas Mellin