Amy Dryansky is the author of the poetry collections Grass Whistle (2013), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for poetry, and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (1999), winner of the New England/New York Award that she worked on while at MacDowell in 1994 and 1996. Her poems have been included in several anthologies and have appeared in a variety of journals, including Barrow Street, Harvard Review, New England Review, Memorious, Orion, and The Women’s Review of Books.
Dryansky has received Fellowships and awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is a former associate of the Five College Women’s Studies Center, where she researched the impact of motherhood on women poets. Dryansky currently serves as the poet laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts, and as assistant director of the Culture, Brain, and Development Program at Hampshire College.
Portrait by Trish Crapo
