About Amy
AMY GLYNN | COLLEGE APPLICATION ESSAY GUIDANCE
Profile
Award-winning poet and essayist, speaker, panelist, lecturer, Tutor for English, Humanities, Writing, ESL, Composition, Creative Writing, Rhetoric, Scholarly Writing and Literary Criticism and Analysis, College and Postgraduate Personal, Statement / Essay Strategist, Coach and Editor
Expertise
Poetry Writing
American and British Literature
Composition / English usage
Vocabulary and Etymology
ESL
Creative Nonfiction
Novel and Short Story
Personal Statement / College Essay
Rhetoric and Argument
Environmental Writing
Natural History
Digital Citizenship
Community
City of Lafayette, Inaugural Poet
Laureate
City of Orinda, Inaugural Poet Laureate
Poetry Out Loud, judge
Graduate Creative Writing Programs, St. Mary’s College, Advisory Board, 2013 – 2016
Eugene O’Neill Foundation | Tao House,
Advisory Board, 2012 – 2014, 2015
Lamorinda Arts Council, Director of
Literary Arts, 2015 – 2017
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing
Lancaster University
Bachelor of Arts, American Studies & English Literature
Mount Holyoke College
Landscape Architecture & Fiction Writing graduate studies, UC Berkeley
Spanish and French, conversant in Italian and German
Amy Glynn
POET, ESSAYIST, EDUCATOR, EDITOR, COLLEGE ESSAY WHISPERER
Amy Glynn is an award-winning essayist, fiction writer and poet whose work appears in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry and The Best American Essays. Her most recent book is Romance Language, forthcoming from Measure Press in Summer 2021. Among other honors, she has received the Troubadour Prize from London's Coffee House Press, the SPUR Award of the Academy of Western Writers, Poetry Northwest's Carolyn Kizer Award, the Literal Latte Essay Prize, and multiple scholarships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers Conferences. She has received two James Merrill House fellowships and served as inaugural Poet Laureate for the cities of Lafayette and Orinda, CA. She lives in Lafayette, CA, with her two daughters.
