Amanda Dettmann is a queer poet, performer, and educator who is the author of Untranslatable Honeyed Bruises. She earned her MFA in Poetry from New York University where she taught undergraduates and has received support from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshops and the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. Dettmann was one of two finalists for the 2022 Action, Spectacle contest judged by Mary Jo Bang, as well as the winner of the 2023 Peseroff Prize in Poetry selected by Jake Skeets. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Emerson Review and has appeared in FENCE, The Oakland Review, Portland Review, The Adroit Journal, and Stanford's Poetry Journal Mantis, among others.

Other poems on the web by Amanda Dettmann:
"When My Sister Places a Jellyfish on My Head"
"The Smear"
"Self-Love in the Afterlife"
"My Mother in Menopause"
Two poems
"Feathered"
"Found Fruit In New York City"
"Mykonos Mirage"
"Temptation"

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October 13, 2024:   "Reverse Abuse" by Lauren Crawford
January 10, 2024:   "Duck Song" by Elizabeth Solsburg
January 9, 2024:   "Babel" by Alyse Knorr

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