Amy Eisner has taught creative writing and literature at Maryland Institute College of Art, Johns Hopkins University, and the Center for Academically Talented Youth, and been a primary school poet-in-residence through Baltimore City and the Maryland State Arts Council. Previously, she worked to enable new genres at Night Kitchen (now the Institute for the Future of the Book), MaMaMedia Inc., and The Voyager Company, and did research and story development for Simon Schama for the BBC's A History of Britain.
Her poetry has appeared in American Literary Review, Fence, Poet Lore, and dozens of other journals, and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Amy Eisner received her master's degree in poetry from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She graduated magna cum laude in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard, where she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. How to pronounce my name. |