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==Honors and awards==
==Honors and awards==
Dryansky won the [http://www.massbook.org/index.html Massachusetts Book Award] in 2014 for poetry for her book, ''Grass Whistle''. Her honors include a Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as well as the [[MacDowell Colony]], Vermont Studio Center, Villa Montalvo, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Five College Women's Studies Research Center at [[Mt. Holyoke College]].<ref>[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/how_lost.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914061828/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/how_lost.html |date=September 14, 2009 }}</ref> In 1999, she won a Greenwall Fund Grant<ref>[http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/131 Academy of American Poets > The Greenwall Fund > Grant recipients > 1999]</ref>
Dryansky won the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140715113649/http://www.massbook.org/index.html Massachusetts Book Award] in 2014 for poetry for her book, ''Grass Whistle''. Her honors include a Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as well as the [[MacDowell Colony]], Vermont Studio Center, Villa Montalvo, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Five College Women's Studies Research Center at [[Mt. Holyoke College]].<ref>[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/how_lost.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914061828/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/how_lost.html |date=September 14, 2009 }}</ref> In 1999, she won a Greenwall Fund Grant<ref>[http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/131 Academy of American Poets > The Greenwall Fund > Grant recipients > 1999] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802020456/http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/131 |date=2010-08-02 }}</ref>
In 1998, she won a New England/New York Award.<ref>[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html Alice James Books > Past Award Winners > New England/New York Awards]</ref>
In 1998, she won a New England/New York Award.<ref>[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html Alice James Books > Past Award Winners > New England/New York Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709040335/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/winners.html |date=2008-07-09 }}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.salmonpoetry.com Salmon Poetry]
* [http://www.salmonpoetry.com Salmon Poetry]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090914061828/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org:80/how_lost.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090914061828/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/how_lost.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky]
* [http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/2856 Poem: ''Orion Magazine'' > March/April 2008 Issue > ''Because We’ve Landed on the Moon but Nobody Wants to Live There'' by Amy Dryansky]
* [http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/2856 Poem: ''Orion Magazine'' > March/April 2008 Issue > ''Because We’ve Landed on the Moon but Nobody Wants to Live There'' by Amy Dryansky]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090912065118/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org:80/dryansky_poem.html Poems: Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky > Two Poems]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090912065118/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/dryansky_poem.html Poems: Alice James Books > Author Page > Amy Dryansky > Two Poems]
* [http://kingdombks.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html Review: Kingdom Books Blogspot > June 23, 2007 > ''Real, Realer, Realest'': Amy Dryansky: ''How I Got Lost So Close to Home'' > Reviewed by Beth Kanell]
* [http://kingdombks.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html Review: Kingdom Books Blogspot > June 23, 2007 > ''Real, Realer, Realest'': Amy Dryansky: ''How I Got Lost So Close to Home'' > Reviewed by Beth Kanell]



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Amy Dryansky
NationalityAmerican
Alma materSyracuse University,
Vermont College
GenrePoetry

Amy Dryansky is an American poet.

Life

Dryansky grew up in Syracuse, New York,received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University and her M.F.A. from Vermont College.[1] She lives in Conway, Massachusetts with her husband and two children.[2]

Career

She is author of "Grass Whistle" (Salmon Poetry, 2013) and How I Got Lost So Close to Home (Alice James Books, 1999). She has had her poems published in literary journals and magazines including Orion Magazine, DoubleTake Magazine,[3] The New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, Nerve, and in several anthologies: "Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry from Alice James Books," Anne-Marie Macari & Carey Salerno, eds., Alice James Books, 2013; "Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems," Marie Gauthier & Jeffrey Levine, eds., Tupelo Press, 2012; "Morning Song: Poems for New Parents" (Susan Todd & Carol Purington, eds., St. Martin's Press, 2011); "Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology" (Jessie Lendennie, ed., Salmon Poetry, 2011); "Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework" (Pamela Gemin, ed., University of Iowa Press, 2005); "Are You Experienced: Baby Boom Poets at Midlife" (Pamela Gemin, ed., University of Iowa Press, 2003); "Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women" (Mad River Press, Barry Sternlieb, ed., 2002).

Honors and awards

Dryansky won the Massachusetts Book Award in 2014 for poetry for her book, Grass Whistle. Her honors include a Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council as well as the MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Villa Montalvo, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Five College Women's Studies Research Center at Mt. Holyoke College.[4] In 1999, she won a Greenwall Fund Grant[5] In 1998, she won a New England/New York Award.[6]

Works

  • How I Got Lost So Close to Home, Alice James Books, 1999, ISBN 9781882295227
  • Grass Whistle, Salmon Poetry, Cliffs of Moher, ISBN 9781908836410, OCLC 841183871

References