Bio
Amy Beth Sisson (any pronouns) lives near the skunk cabbages in a town outside of Philly. Her poetry has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Night Heron Barks, Philadelphia Stories, Hot Pink Magazine, Plant-Human Quarterly, and others. Starting in the 2020 lockdown, she began making a series of stress doodles using cheap markers. Sundress Publications selected her manuscript I Instruct My Toad How to Write Poetry as a semifinalist for its 2022 Chapbook Contest. She received her MFA in poetry from Rutgers University Camden in 2023 and was a 2024 Peter Taylor Fellow with the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops, a winner of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia’s Joyful Abundance: Emerging Artist Commissioning Program, 2025, and the 2025 winner of the Lambda Literary J. Michael Samuel Prize for Emerging Writers Over 50. She has been supported by the generosity of workshops and residencies through Sundress, Vermont Studio Center, New York State Summer Writers Institute, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Poets and Scholars Summer Writing Retreat. She is a former Associate Artist with the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. Amy Beth is Fence Magazine's Steaming (online) Visual Poetry editor and serves on the board of Blue Stoop where she helps with educational programming.