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Published as Amanda Stovicek

Writing

  • Dead End Zine’s Plum City / Crooked River, Fall 2024, “I got my CVS receipt as an NFT,” “Liminal Space of Birds”
  • Black Lily Zine, Issue 2, Fall 2024, “Strangler Fig,” “Ritual,” “Tremendous Light”
  • Gordon Square Review, Issue 10, “You Keep Asking What I Want and I Don’t Know What I Want”

Published as Amanda Stovicek

  • Barnhouse Journal, OHIO Loves You Feature, “Where does the poem begin?”
  • Cease Cows, “The One Bad Day”
  • Barnhouse Journal, Issue One, “The Beast with No Face”
  • Nice Cage, Issue 007, “A Kind of Blindness,” “Southern Weather,” “Märchen”
  • Noble / Gas Qtrly, Issue 205.3, “Color Theory”
  • Red Queen Literary Magazine, Issue 4, “Bird With A Broken Wing”
  • Gordon Square Review, “Last Note Slipped Under the Mattress”
  • sidereal magazine, “The Pyre” and “Inevitable Blue”
  • POTLUCK Magazine, “The Space of My Body,” “Overcast,” “Meteorologists,” “Pink Sky in the Morning,” “Albireo”
  • The Bookends Review, “The Gods Remember the Tower,” “Struggle Against Filling and Falling Apart”
  • Ghost City Review, “Dad’s Grief Caravan“
  • The Birds We Piled Loosely, Issue 12, “The Sun Writes a Letter,” “The Moon Writes to the Sun,” “Hubble Telescope on Pillars of Creation,” “One Stellar Origin Story”
  • Academy of American Poets University Prize 2017, “Blueshift“
  • 45th Parallel, “Drawing Death”
  • Calamus Journal, “Onion Sketch,” “Not the Sun,” “Disobedience,” “Storm Path”
  • Anti-Heroin Chic, “The Purple Is A Bruise,” “The Lovers,” “Hypoxic”
  • Occulum, formerly Fair Folk Journal, “Fable,” “How It Feels to Sew Swan Shirts,” “The Juniper Tree“
  • Jenny Magazine, “Standing at the Dam Flume on the Cuyahoga River,” “Factory Floor,” “Oxeye Daisy“
  • The New Old Stock, “The Pantomime”
  • Us For President, “Hands On”
  • Rubbertop Review, “Wet”
  • Sugared Water, “Anatomy”
  • Ohio Poetry Day Winners 2012, “The Solo”
  • Murder of Poets, “Enola Gay,” “Giants in Holland”
  • Morpheus Magazine, “No, Alice” (as Mandy Stovicek)
  • Calliope Magazine, “Vows For When We’re Married”

Exhibitions // Readings // Honors

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award & Grant, Ohio, 2026
  • First Wednesday Reader Series, Lit Youngstown, April 2, 2025, Featured Reader
  • Sacramento Poetry Center Reading, October 3, 2022
  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award & Grant, Ohio, 2022
  • Literary Artist of the Month, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, June 2021 & August 2020
  • “Interdisciplinary: Poetry and Landscape” Interview with The Landscape Nerd Podcast, 23 June 2021
  • Akron Soul Train, Soulful Sunday May 3, 2020, Reading
  • Ekphrastacy April 2020, Heights Arts, virtual, “Invisible Storm“, “Messages in a Bottle“, “Decorative Philosophy“
  • Cuyahoga County Public Library Read + Write: 30 Days of Poetry, “Drawing Death,” April 10, 2020

As Amanda Stovicek

  • Cleveland Drafts, Round 2 @ Rob Hartshorn Studio/Paul Duda Gallery, October 20, 2018.
  • Gordon Square Review Issue 2 Release Reading, Terrestrial Brewing, Ohio, May 2018
  • Youngstown State University, Jenny 12 Release Reading, Youngstown, Ohio, April 2017
  • Academy of American Poets Prize for “Blueshift”, NEOMFA University Prize, 2017
  • Second place for “Factory Floor,” Jenny Magazine Flash Fiction Contest, 2016
  • Juniper Summer Writing Institute Scholarship, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2016
  • Kent State University, Singing Verse, in collaboration with Kevin Wilson, composition inspired by “I Am An Ocean,” spring 2016
  • Heights Arts Gallery, Ekphrastacy: Emergent 2015, “Paper Heart,” “The Pantomime,” fall 2015
  • Midwest Modern Language Association, “Zombie Representation and Posthuman Consciousness,” 133. Arts and Sciences in Popular Culture, Columbus, Ohio, November 14, 2015
  • Kent State University, Graduate Professional Development, “Best Practices for New TAs” co-presented with Kristen Traynor and Andrea Maxwell, 2015
  • Wick Graduate Fellowship, Wick Poetry Center, Kent State University, 2015 – 2017
  • Kent State University, Graduate Student Orientation, “Lectures and Discussions” co-created with Cadey Korson, 2013
  • Shaker Heights High School, New Stages Festival, “One Day A Package Came,” spring 2008

Journals

  • Founding Editor of Voices of Dan Street, October 2014 – May 2017
    • Online journal showcasing the work of incarcerated youth at the Juvenile Detention Center of Summit County
  • Guest Editor of Literary Vistas, September 2014 – July 2015
    • Anthology of work from Writers Workshop at Stow-Munroe Falls Library

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This artist was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2026.