Amanda Newell is the author of Postmortem Say (Červená Barva 2024) and I Will Pass Even to Acheron, a winner of Rattle's 2021 chapbook prize. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere. A graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA Program, she has received scholarships or fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Frost Place, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an associate editor at Plume.

Other poems on the web by Amanda Newell:
Four poems
"Because I Am Lonely and You Will Not Know My Pain"
"“Late Sonogram"
Two poems

Amanda Newell's Website.

About Postmortem Say:

"Love and death, poetry's immortal themes, are interwoven throughout Amanda Newell's Postmortem Say. Death is everywhere-in the fields and forests, on darkened roads, in the delivery room-but there is also love, the kind that defies convention and outlasts death itself. These poems confront, without flinching, hard truths about what it means to be a woman, a mother, a wife, and a lover."
—Sue Ellen Thompson

"Amanda Newell's Postmortem Say is a collection of urgent and truthful self-revelations about marriage, motherhood, the life cycle of a love affair, all written within the maelstrom of our modern American violence. Blood is everywhere: the blood of birth, death, desire. Newell's language throughout is precise, viscerally arresting, yet always in touch with the pulse and breath of the vernacular. The poems whisper in the reader's ear of pain while providing the consolations of insight and compassion. For all the wounds suffered and remembered in Postmortem Say, this is a book that heals."
—Dan O'Brien

"The poems in Amanda Newell's Postmortem Say are distinguished by driving intensity and subtle expertise. Even as this poet comes to terms with violence, loss, and absence, she remains utterly precise in her attention to her subjects, and lionhearted in her refusal of easy answers. These poems are vividly embodied. Amanda Newell is a dynamo of poetry, and nothing can stop her."
—Peter Campion