Amy Woolard is Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia, where she works on civil rights & civil liberties advocacy in Virginia. Her debut poetry collection, NECK OF THE WOODS, received the 2018 Alice James Award from Alice James Books. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Fence, & elsewhere, while her essays and reporting have been featured in publications such as Slate, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, and The Rumpus, as well as Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction in 2016. She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and 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.
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