Amy Butcher
Books:
Visiting Hours, Blue Rider Press/Penguin, forthcoming April 2015
Essays:
"Reenacting," The Iowa Review Award as judged by David Shields, Winter 2014
"A Slow Kind Of Unraveling," Gulf Coast, Fall 2014
"The Place We First Came From," Fourth Genre, Fall 2014
"We Walk A Line," Hobart, Summer 2014
"Isaac Martin, You Are Not A Gypsy," Barrelhouse's comedy issue, Summer 2014
"Bigger Than Ourselves," Tin House online, Winter 2014
"All We Had," The Paris Review online, Fall 2013
"Look Back," Tin House online, Fall 2013
"These Storms Both Big And Small," Tin House online, Fall 2013
"Probably It's Nothing Fancy," Tin House online, Summer 2013
"My Friend, Murderer," Salon, Spring 2013​​
"We Are Only So Much Monkey," The Rumpus, Spring 2013
"I Was Always Pushing," Hobart, Winter 2013
​"Sick," The Rumpus, Winter 2013
​"Some Salvation," Hobart, Winter 2013
"Let's See What Happens," Barrelhouse, Winter 2013
"A Review of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese 'Homestyle Dinners,'" McSweeney's, Fall 2012
"On Fear (And, Okay, Also Steak)," Hobart, Fall 2012
"Light Up And Break," The Colorado Review, Summer 2012
"How To Displace Feelings of Inadequacy With An Adorable Cake," The Rumpus, Spring 2012
"Still Things," Brevity, Winter 2012
"The People We Want To Be And The People That We Are," The Rumpus, Winter 2012
"The Subtle Way," Everyday Genius, Winter 2011
"Beneath the Surface," The Indiana Review, Winter 2011
"The Patterns of the Rails," The Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 2011
Fiction:
"A Couch Is A Couch Is Deception," Crony Mag, Winter 2014
"There Was A Certain Thrill," American Short Fiction, Fall 2013
"Peeling Back," The North American Review, Spring 2012
"Engaging An Alien: A Short Memoir," PANK, Winter 2012
"Hickory Hill," Hobart, Winter 2012
"Rodent Sounds," Necessary Fiction, Fall 2012
"Beneath Them Are Towns," Midwestern Gothic, Fall 2011
"Gettysburg," Upstreet, Spring 2010
Literary Reviews, Interviews & Pedagogical Essays:
"And Despite It All, Okay: An Interview with The Last Days of California's Mary Miller," Barnes & Noble, Spring 2014
"Finding What Makes Your Heart Beat: An Interview with Praying Drunk's Kyle Minor," Barnes & Noble, Spring 2014
"In Conversation With Our Contemporaries: On Patricia Vigderman's Possibility: Essays Against Despair," Fourth Genre, Spring 2014
"A Review of Mary Miller's The Last Days of California: A Novel," Hobart, Winter 2014
"The Art In Losing: On Sarah Manguso's The Guardians: An Elegy," The Kenyon Review, Fall 2013
"Preserving Activity Within the Art of Essaying," Essay Daily, Fall 2013
"Getting Personal: On Teaching With Heart," draft: a journal of process, Summer 2013
Interview With Molly Beer As Vela's Featured Writer, Vela, Spring 2013
​​Anthologized Work:
"Rodent Sounds," The Short Form, nominated by Lindsay Hunter, Fall 2013
"Still Things," Writing True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction, edited by Sondra Perl and Mimi Schwartz, 2013
​Honors & Awards​:
Recipient, The 2014 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction, as judged by David Shields, Spring 2014
Finalist, Tupelo Quarterly's Prose Contest (fiction), as judged by Matt Bell, Winter 2014
Writer-in-Residence, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, March-May 2014
Honorable Mention, The Lindenwood Review's Lyric Essay Contest, Fall 2013
Recipient, Word Riot Inc. Travel Grant, Fall 2013
Finalist, American Short Fiction's Flash-Camera Contest, Fall 2013
Featured writer, Long Reads, Spring 2013
Featured writer, Long Reads, Winter 2013
Recipient, Pushcart Prize Nomination, The Colorado Review, 2012
Recipient, Pushcart Prize Nomination, Hobart, 2012
Recipient, Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship, Colgate University, 2012-2013
Recipient, Stanley Grant for International Research, 2012
Recipient, The Wigleaf Long List, 2012
Finalist, Hunger Mountain's Essay Prize, Winter 2011
Finalist, Brevity's Bristol Palin Lyric Essay Contest, Winter 2011
Finalist, Creative Nonfiction's Food Issue, Fall 2010
Finalist, New Letters' Essay Contest, Fall 2010