Amy Woolard


Amy Woolard is an American attorney and poet. She won the 2018 Alice James Prize. She won the 2015 1/2 K Prize,
She is Chief Program Officer for the ACLU of Virginia. She is an advocate for criminal justice reform in Virginia.

Early life

She graduated from the University of Virginia, where she studied with Gregory Orr in the University of Virginia School of Law.

Career

Her work appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Guernica, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Fence, Slate, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.

Works

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