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Faculty Lecture at Suffolk University. Photo credit: Lauren Burch

Panel moderator: “Writing Long in the Age of the Quick Take” with Nicole Graev Lipson, Heather Kirn Lanier, Sejal Shah, and Melissa Faliveno at AWP 2026, March 5-8.

Panelist on “Anger Had Snatched My Pencil While I Dreamt: Women’s Rage as Craft Tool” with Jill Kolongowski, Nicole Graev Lipson, and Brooke Champagne” at NonfictioNow 2025, June 10-14.

Featured reader at “Raw Emotion” gallery opening at Jameson and Thompson on Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 6-8 PM.

Co-leader at HippoCamp Conference 2022: “Finding Magic in the Minutia,” with Jill Kolongowski. August 13, 2022.

Article: “Life Lessons: These First-Year Courses Are for Keeps” profiles the First-Year Seminar Program at Suffolk University, including Amy’s course on 21st-century storytelling.

Audio: Amy reads from her memoir-in-progress, A New and Magical Life, at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga!

Panelist on “The Split Story: Fractured Identities and Hybrid Narratives,” with Marissa Landrigan and Colette Arrand. Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, March 5, 2020.

Visiting Writer at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga’s Meacham Writers’ Workshop. 

Video: Interview with Jayme McCrackin about majoring in English and creative writing.

Video: Faculty Lecture at Suffolk University. 

Panelist on “Assaying the Work of Nonfiction Studies,” with Julija Sukys, Christine Cusick, and Karen Babine at NonfictioNow 2018.

Featured reader with Anthony D’Aries at I AM Books in Boston, MA on Saturday, April 21, 2018 6-8 p.m.

Distinguished Voices in Literature featured speaker, SUNY Cortland, April 6, 2017.