Amy Monticello (born 1982) is an American
essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters (Sweet Publications, 2012) and How to Euthanize a Horse (Arcadia Press, 2018).
Life and work
Amy Monticello was born in
Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a
Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The 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.[1] She is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
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.
Amy Monticello (born 1982) is an American
essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters (Sweet Publications, 2012) and How to Euthanize a Horse (Arcadia Press, 2018).
Life and work
Amy Monticello was born in
Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a
Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The 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.[1] She is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.
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.