Amy Barone

Amy Barone has a new poetry collection, Defying Extinction, from Broadstone Books, which was published in 2022. Her poetry book, We Became Summer, from New York Quarterly Books, was released in 2018. Kamikaze Dance, her second poetry chapbook, was published by Finishing Line Press; she was a finalist in the publisher’s New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition of 2014. Barone's first chapbook, Views from the Driveway, was published by Foothills Publishing in 2008. Her poetry has appeared in Café Review, Local Knowledge, Muddy River Poetry Review, New Verse News, Paterson Literary Review, Sensitive Skin and Standpoint (UK), among other publications. She spent five years as Italian correspondent for Women's Wear Daily and Advertising Age. She belongs to the Poetry Society of America and the brevitas online poetry community that celebrates the short poem. As a former board member of the Italian American Writers Association, for three years she co-organized and promoted their monthly readings in New York City. A native of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Barone lives in New York City.