Amanda Auchter

Amanda Auchter is an American writer, professor, and editor. She is an editor and author of poetry, nonfiction essays, and book reviews.

Personal life

Amanda Auchter received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing and English from the University of Houston, where she worked as an editorial assistant at and was awarded the 2005 Howard Moss Poetry Award. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College, where she served as the editor of the Bennington Review.
She is the editor of the literary magazine, . She is the author of the books, "The Wishing Tomb," winner of the Award, "The Glass Crib," winner of the First Book Award for Poetry, judged by and of the chapbook, "Light Under Skin".

2012 Perugia Press Award
2011 Southern Indiana Review/Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award
2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry
2009 Magliocco Prize for Poetry, Bellevue Literary Review
2007 Theodore Morrison Scholarship in Poetry for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
2007 Finalist, Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation
2006 BOMB Magazine Poetry Prize
2005 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review
2005 Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Award from Harpur Palate
2005 Bucknell University Younger Poets Fellowship