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Amanda Lin Hayes
About Amanda
Amanda Lin Hayes writes poetry about a variety of human and more-than-human animals. Originally from Arlington, Virginia, she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she lectures in the University of Michigan's English Department Writing Program. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Michigan, where she was a Zell Fellow and won a Hopwood Award. You can read her work in Ninth Letter, Treble, The Margins, Passages North, and elsewhere.
More than anything else, I believe poetry is about paying attention. In my creative writing classes, I center practices of ritual, play, and self-reflection that help get all of us in a space of noticing.
- Finalist, 2024 Greybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets
- 2023-24 Zell Fellow, University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program
B.A., English - Stanford University
M.F.A., Creative Writing - Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan