Amorak Huey

Poet

Bowling Green, OH
Ohio US
Email: 
amorakhuey@comcast.net
Website: 
amorakhuey.com
Twitter/X: 
@amorak

Author's Bio

Amorak Huey spent 15 years as an editor and reporter before leaving the newspaper business in 2008. He teaches in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He holds an MFA in poetry from Western Michigan University.

Education: 
Western Michigan University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021)
,
Boom Box (Sundress Publications, 2019)
,
Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank Books, 2018)
,
Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015)
Chapbooks:
Slash / Slash (Diode Editions, 2021)
,
A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
,
The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2014)
Prizes won: 

Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2017
Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize, Cloudbank Books, 2018

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Kalamazoo, MI
Michigan
Raised in: 
Trussville, AL
Alabama
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Last update: Jun 23, 2024