Amanda Reavey is a poet who has taught community workshops since 2006. As a transnational adoptee, she is interested in the various ways in which we feel untethered, and how we can use story and myth to reconnect to ourselves and the earth.
Reavey is the author of Marilyn (The Operating System, 2015), which won the 2017 Best Book Award in Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies. Her poems and essays appear in Construction Literary Magazine, Anthropoid, TRUCK, and Evening Will Come, among others.
She received her MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.