Birth City
Jackson
Birth State
TN
Current Location
Colorado Springs, CO
Email (Public)
Author's Website
Occupation(s)
Assistant Professor of English and Literature
Biography
Amie Sharp lives in Colorado Springs and is an assistant professor at Pikes Peak Community College. Her chapbook The Sabine Women won the Emergence Poetry Prize and was published by Red Dragonfly Press. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals including Atticus Review, Badlands, Bellevue Literary Review, BlazeVOX, New Plains Review, Tar River Poetry, and Valparaiso Poetry Journal. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, was a finalist for the Lascaux Prize in Poetry, and has been performed at Bridgewater International Poetry Festival and Houston Poetry Fest. She spent the summer of 2018 as artist-in-residence at the Sabina Cultural Association in Casaprota, Italy.
Awards/Honors
Emergence Chapbook Series Poetry Prize for The Sabine Women, Red Dragonfly Press, March 2019
Finalist - The Lascaux Prize in Poetry, March 2019
Nomination - 2018 Best of the Net for "Train at Night in the Desert," Burningwood Literary Journal
Nomination - 2017 Pushcart Prize for "Taking Down the Tree," Tar River Poetry
Semifinalist - 2016 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Aware, Flare
Nomination - 2015 Best of the Net for "Garden Constellations," Lascaux Review
Anspaugh Creative Writing Award Spring 2003 - Univ. of South Florida English Department, Graduate Studies
Education/Training
MFA, Seattle Pacific University - MA English, University of South Florida
Local Authors Genres
Published Works
"Beryllium" and "Picasso's Sabine Women, 1962" (The Sixty-Four)(Black Mountain …
"People Person" (The Oyez Review, May 2019)
"The Loss" (The Poeming Pigeon/The Poetry Box Sports Issue, May 2019)
"Train at Night in the Desert" (Burningwood Literary Journal, Best of 2018 Spec…
"The Minister's Last Morning," "Diabetes," and "My Secret Poems" (What Lies Bey…
"Over and Under: Approaches to Hyperbole and Subtlety in Poetry." (Cathexis Nor…
"Train at Night in the Desert" (Burningwood Literary Journal, Jan. 2018)
"Milan" (Cagibi, Jan. 2018)
"Riverwater" (Houston Poetry Fest 2017 Anthology, Oct. 2017)
"The Sceptacle" (Saint Katherine Review 5.3, Oct. 2017)
"West Tennessee, 1980" (Valparaiso Poetry Review, Nov. 2016)
"Astronomy," "Processional," and "Spider Remembers" (BlazeVOX, Fall 2016)
"Summer Opening" (Poetry While You Wait, Spring 2016)
"Taking Down the Tree" (Tar River Poetry, Spring 2016)
"After Surgery" and "For a Holdout" (New Plains Review, Fall 2015)
"Jephthah and His Daughter" (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Fall 2015)
"The Loss" (Aethlon: The Journal of Sport and Literature, Fall 2015)
"Picasso's Old Guitarist" and "Circle" (Glint Literary Review, Fall 2015)
"Mists," "Colorado Springs," and "A Day Without You" (Badlands Literary Review,…
"Formations of the West" (The Bacon Review, Fall 2015)
"In the Aftermath of Another Fire" (Aperiron Review, Summer 2015)
"Coffee" (US Represented, 9 July 2015)
"The Minister's Last Morning," "Elizabeth," and "The Evening and the Morning" (…
"Nightfall Poem" (521 Magazine, July 2014)
"Garden Constellations" (The Lascaux Review, July 2014)
"My Secret Poems" (Pisgah Review, 2014)
"Prayers" (Forge 7.2, Fall 2013)
"Frances and Paul" (Forge 7.2, Fall 2013)
"Dark Dream," "Shooter," "Riverwater," and "Act V, Scene 3" (Atticus Review, 9 …
"Travel" (Poetry While You Wait, Spring 2012)
"Diabetes" (Rearrange, Fall 2012)
"Lessons" (Colorado Poets Center, Fall 2012)
"Spring Stage" (Poetry While You Wait, April 2010)
"Black Dog" (Bellevue Literary Review 9.2, Fall 2009)
"Morning Rusher" (Almagre, Summer 2008)
"Anniversary Roses" and "Having My Way with Time (The 2River View, Summer 2004)
"Rocky Mountain Sonnets," "Sonnet to St. Louis," and "Love Poem" (The New Forma…
"Pardon" and "Watersong" (The Penwood Review, Spring 2003)
Organizations
Association of Writers and Writing Programs - Colorado Poets Center - Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Speaker Availability
Yes
Speaker Topics
Poetry - Creative Writing - Literary Publishing