Amy Nash

TWH 2025 Teaching Assistant (Poetry ) 

Amy Nash has lived in every northern state between Massachusetts and Minnesota (except for Wisconsin and Michigan), resulting in brackish poetry that mixes the Mississippi River with the Great Lakes, Atlantic Ocean, and everything between.

Amy’s poems have appeared in a range of journals, including Exist Otherwise, Common Ground Review, Blood Lotus, and Northwind, and several anthologies, including If Bees Are Few: A Hive of Bee Poems, Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology, The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home, and Legacy of Light: Poems for the Gay Head Lighthouse. She was the April 2015 featured author in The New Guard’s Bang! Author Showcase series. Amy has given readings on Minnesota Public Radio and at a variety of venues and events regionally and nationally, including Bowery Poetry in New York City.

Amy received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with honors and studied verse writing with Annie Dillard at Wesleyan University and completed a two-year apprenticeship program in poetry at the Loft Literary Center. Other writing programs and workshops she has completed include the Writer’s Hotel program (New York, NY) and workshops with Eavan Boland at the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference (Saint Helena, CA) and with Nick Flynn at the Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA), as well as numerous others.

For 12 years, Amy worked in book publishing for several presses, including Oxford University Press and Yale University Press. She is currently marketing and communications manager for MSR Design, the Minneapolis architecture firm responsible for the design of Open Book (a literary and book arts center), Mill City Museum, and more than 200 libraries. Amy is also the author of an original poetry blog: http://arambler.com.