Mighty Member since September 2016
Amy Yelin’s writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Globe Magazine, The Missouri Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, Literary Mama, Brainchild, The Manifest-Station, The Gettysburg Review and other publications. She received a Pushcart nomination for “The Memoirist” (Lunch Ticket) and a Best American Essays notable recognition for “Torn,” (The Baltimore Review). Her awards include scholarships to the Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony and the Prague Summer Program, as well as a full fellowship from the Sustainable Arts Foundation for two weeks at the Vermont Studio Center to work on her memoir-in-progress, “A Stranger There.” She has an MFA from Lesley University, teaches writing classes at Grub Street in Boston and is the former managing editor of Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices.