Border Crossing - Paperback

by Amy Schmitz (Author)

Selected as winner of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies 2017 Stevens Manuscript Competition by Erin Belieu, Professor of Creative Writing and Poetry, Florida State University

Author Biography

Originally from Buffalo, New York, and Fairfax, Virginia, Amy Schmitz now lives in San Diego, California, and works in Tucson, Arizona. Her work has been published in Quiddity, High Plains Literary Review, Sugar House Review, Kestrel, Borderlands: Texas Literary Review, Louisiana Review, Askew, Poetry International and elsewhere, and she has won awards from Poetry International, the Women's National Book Association, and the Syracuse chapter of the National League of American Pen Women. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, she holds an MFA from George Mason University.