Amy Small-McKinney is a Montgomery County PA Poet Laureate Emeritus, 2011, selected by poet Chris Bursk. Small-McKinney's second full-length book, Walking Toward Cranes (Glass Lyre Press) won the 2016 Kithara Book Prize. Her third chapbook, One Day I Am A Field, was written during COVID and her husband's illness and death (Glass Lyre Press, 2022). For the 2020 virtual AWP, she co-moderated an interactive discussion, Writing Through Grief & Loss: The Intersection of Social and Personal Grief During COVID. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including American Poetry Review, Banyan Review, The Cortland Review, Comstock Review, Connotation Press, Inflectionist Review, One Art, Pedestal Magazine, Persimmon Tree, Tiferet, SWWIM, and Vox Populi, among others. Small-McKinney's poems also appear in several anthologies, most recently, Rumors Secrets & Lies Poems About Pregnancy, Abortion & Choice (Anhinga Press, 2022) and Stained, an anthology of writing about menstruation (Querencia Press, 2023). Her poems have also been translated into Korean and Romanian. Her book reviews have appeared in journals, such as Prairie Schooner and Matter. Small-McKinney has a degree in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel University and an MFA in Poetry. She currently resides in Philadelphia.

Books by Amy Small-McKinney:

Other poems on the web by Amy Small-McKinney:
Five poems
Two poems
"How to Love the World, Anyway"
"The Doctor Said We Need to Return in Two Months After Further Testing Including Bloodwork"
Two poems
"Daughter & Mother"
"American Dream/Legacy"
"Extinctions"
Three poems
"Here"
"From a Dead Father to His Daughter"
Three poems

Amy Small-McKinney's Website.