Amy Alexander

Amy Alexander is a poet and illustrator with an obsession for legends, stories, and mountains who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She grew up in Colorado, near Mt. Sopris, at the junction of the Roaring Fork and Colorado Rivers. She holds a master’s degree in Folklore from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Her artwork has been featured at The Shaw Center for the Arts and the Baton Rouge Gallery, and has also appeared on the covers of books and magazines. She was an AWP Intro Journals winner in creative nonfiction and was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.