Amorak Huey spent more than a decade as a reporter and editor before leaving the newspaper business to teach writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He holds an MFA from Western Michigan University. He is author of three books of poetry and two chapbooks, as well as co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018). His poetry appears in The Best American Poetry 2012, The Southern Review, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Subtropics, Caketrain, Rattle, The Collagist, Poet Lore, Linebreak and many other print and online journals.

Website: http://amorakhuey.net

Twitter Username: @amorak

Publications

• Boom Box , Sundress Publications (March 2019)
• Seducing the Asparagus Queen , Cloudbank Books (September 2018)
• Ha Ha Ha Thump , Sundress Publications (August 2015)

Employment

• Associate Professor at Grand Valley State University

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English from Birmingham-Southern College
• Master of Fine Arts in English / Creative Writing (Poetry) from Western Michigan University

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry