Amanda Hawkins’ first book of poetry is When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, forthcoming from Wandering Aengus Press in January 2025. Their work has been nominated for three Pushcart prizes, listed as honorable mention, semi-finalist, and finalist for various contests and awards, and won the Scotti Merrill Award from Key West Literary Seminar, the Editors’ Prize for Poetry at The Florida Review, and the Wandering Aengus Book Prize. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Honey Literary, Massachusetts Review, The Orison Anthology, Orion, The Rumpus, The Southampton Review, Terrain, Tin House, Tin House Online, and Image, among others.

Hawkins holds an MFA in creative writing from UC Davis and MA in theological studies from Regent College in Vancouver, Canada. They are a Tin House, Key West, Bread Loaf, and Mellon Public Scholar, have won fellowships from Writing by Writers, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, and have taught literature, writing, and poetry at university and community levels for over a decade . They live in Northern California and are at work on their PhD in English.