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Amy Monticello

Amy Monticello is an American essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters and How to Euthanize a Horse.

Life and work
Amy Monticello was born in Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Ohio State University in 2008. Her book Close Quarters, is classified as a chapbook. In constructing her non-fiction chapbook she took a collection of her shorter essays from a larger project she was working on and used the novella form as a guide. She is an associate professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. ==Works==
Works
Books The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing. Co-authored with Jason Tucker. Routledge, 2023. • Close Quarters. Sweet Publications, 2012. • "How to Euthanize a Horse." Arcadia Press, 2018. Anthology Inclusions Tuscaloosa Writes This, “Communing with Cancer,” Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013. • Going Om, “Against the Pursuit of Happiness,” Ed. Melissa Carroll, Viva editions/Cleis Press, 2014. Journal Publications • "The Reduced World." under the gum tree. • "How to Tell the Story of an Ordinary Death." Los Angeles Review of Books. • "Not Nothing." Brevity. • "My Only Child Scatters My Ashes." CALYX. • "Resuscitate." Hotel Amerika. • "Letters From My Father." Brain, Child. • "A New and Magical Life." The Rumpus. • “Waiting for My Milk During the Polar Vortex, I Channel William Blake.” The Common • “Moderation is the Key.” Prime Number. • “Shame.” Brevity. • “The Short Summer.” The Common. • “The Faces We Carry.”The Nervous Breakdown. • “Eighteen One-Sided Conversations With My Father.” Women Arts Quarterly Journal. • “Playing the Odds.” The Nervous Breakdown. • “Communing with Cancer.” Salon.com. • “Loving Captain Corcoran.” Stone Canoe. • “I Know Who You Are.”The Nervous Breakdown. • Untitled 140-character micro-essay. Creative Nonfiction. • “How to Euthanize a Horse.” Natural Bridge. • “The Other Woman.” Iron Horse Literary Review. Notable Essay in Best American Essays. • “Christmas 1984.” The Nervous Breakdown. • “Suburban.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. • “A Good Man.” WomenArts Quarterly Journal. • “Chimney Swift.” Sweet: A Literary Confection. • “The North Side.” Phoebe. • “All the Ways We Fool Ourselves.” Waccamaw. • “Getting Caught.” Prick of the Spindle. • “Winter.” Upstreet. • “Miracles We Get.” Redivider. • “Tradition.”The Rambler. • “Looking Forward.” Word Riot. • “Errands.” Flashquake. Craft Articles • “In Defense of the Confessional: Parenting, Inclusivity, and J.D. Schraffenberger’s ‘Droppies Babies’.” Essay Daily. 2014. • “Hello New Year, Hello 30: A Craft Conversation with Marissa Landrigan.” Her Kind: A Literary Community Powered by VIDA. 2013. • “More Than One True Thing.” Waccamaw. Issue 11. • “The Place Where Opposing Instincts Meet.” Tuscaloosa Writes This. Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013. Honors • Winner, Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize, 2016. • Winner, S.I. Newhouse School Prize in Nonfiction, 2013. • Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2011. • Recipient, certificate of appreciation for collaborative course development. Ithaca College Division of Student Affairs, 2011. • Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2010. • Finalist, The Journal’s Alumni Flash Writing Contest, The Ohio State University, 2010. • Nominee, The Ohio State University's Graduate Associate Teaching Award, 2007. • Recipient of commendation letter for excellence in teaching from The Ohio State University's First-Year Writing Program, 2006. • Winner, Ithaca College Writing Contest in creative nonfiction and poetry, 2005. ==References==
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