Amy Woolard’s debut poetry collection, NECK OF THE WOODS, received the Alice James Award & was published in 2020. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, Boston Review, & elsewhere, while her essays and reporting have been featured in publications such as Slate, The Guardian, & Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction in 2016. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, & the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, & holds a community residency with the Sound Justice Lab, a program of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is an attorney & Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia, leading the work of the organization’s Legal, Policy, & Organizing teams, & also teaches courses at the intersection of art, law & justice at the UVA School of Law.