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.
