Poet - Carrollton, Georgia

April 29 through May 11 - Mellinger Studio

A graduate of University of Arizona’s M.F.A. program, Amy Pence published the chapbook Skin’s Dark Night (2River Press) in 2003. Other poems have appeared in New American Writing, StorySouth, American Letters & Commentary, Georgetown Review and The Antioch Review. Online journals such as Mudlark and The Red Booth Review have featured her work as well. Her manuscript, Ablaze, has been a finalist or semi-finalist for the Walt Whitman Award, Tupelo Press’s First Book Award, The Starrett Prize, and the University of Wisconsin’s Poetry Series. She is a professor in the Arts & Sciences Department at DeVry University and makes her home in Carrollton, Georgia with her daughter, Ada, and husband, Chris Aanstoos.