Amy Award
In Memory of Paula Trachtman
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Paula Trachtman at the 2013 Amy Award Reading. Credit: Margarita Corporanpw_amy_awards_margarita_corporan-94.jpg
Poets & Writers notes the passing of Paula Trachtman, benefactor of the Amy Award, who died on August 16, 2019. Ms. Trachtman was a generous, longtime supporter of Poets & Writers. The author of a bestselling novel, Disturb Not the Dream (Ballentine, 1980), Trachtman was also a teacher, editor, and publisher. A long-time resident of Amagansett and, in recent years, Greenport, New York, she is survived by her husband, Ed Butscher. Read an obituary from the East Hampton Star here [1].
Ms. Trachtman and Mr. Butscher founded the Amy Award in 1995 in memory of Ms. Trachtman's daughter, Amy Elisabeth Rothholz, an actor and poet who died at the age of twenty-five. Since the start of the Amy Award, more than fifty-five young women poets who live in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island have received the prize. Poets & Writers is grateful for Ms. Trachtman’s long-standing support of poets and poetry, and proud to continue the tradition she established of recognizing promising young poets in Amy’s memory.
About the Amy Award
Poets & Writers presents the Amy Award each year to recognize promising women poets, age 30 and under, living in the New York City metropolitan area or on Long Island. Winners receive a modest honorarium and give a reading in New York City.
2019 Winners
Winners of the 2019 Amy Award are Nadra Mabrouk, Megan Pinto, and Stephanie Tom. The winners will present a reading, along with guest poet Jenny Xie, on Thursday, October 17, at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. For details, contact friends@pw.org [2].
Read poems by the 2019 winners [3].
Past Winners
- Lindsay Adkins
- Desiree Bailey
- Emily Barton
- Kiley Bense
- Genevieve Burger-Weiser
- Lisabeth Burton
- Wendy Chen
- Ebony E. Chinn
- Jerie Choi
- Alexandra Cordera
- Rio Cortez
- Caitlin Doyle
- Dorene Evans
- Laura Fairgrieve
- Hafizah Geter
- K. D. Henley
- Carlie Hoffman
- Shannon Holman
- Ava Hu
- Sarah Ruth Jacobs
- Courtney Kampa
- Liza Katz
- Simone Kearney
- K. Morgan Keenan
- Eugenia Leigh
- Amanda Lichtenberg
- Nabila Lovelace
- Shireen Madon
- Sally Wen Mao
- Amy Meng
- Kerry Ann Minto
- Holly Mitchell
- Annabelle Moseley
- Idra Novey
- Stella Padnos
- Alison Roh Park
- Cecily Parks
- Prudence Peiffer
- Shabnam Piryaei
- Frances Justine Post
- Hila Ratzabi
- Jendi Reiter
- Christie Ann Reynolds
- Anne Marie Rooney
- Jessica Saffer
- Sreshtha Sen
- Mrigaa Sethi
- Laurie Siegal
- Alexandra Smyth
- Jessica Max Stein
- Leigh Stein
- Lindsay Stern
- Tamara Tiska
- Jeannie Vanasco
- Alexandra Wilder
- Wendy Wisner
- Jenny Xie
- Crystal Yeung
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