Bio for 2026
Amy Le Ann Richardson is a writer, educator, and community organizer based on her family farm in Carter County. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Out of Places (Pine Row Press), and editor of the forthcoming anthology Rooted, Resilient, Rising: Women Growing Food across the Mountains (University Press of Kentucky). She is founder and director of the Bloodroot Young Writers Collective, an inaugural National Arts Futures Fellow, and co-founder of the Appalachian Literary Arts Festival in Morehead, Kentucky.
Reason for signing up:
For the love of poetry.
Badges
Participated in the 2019 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2020 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2021 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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