Neck of the Woods

Amy Woolard is a writer and legal aid attorney working on court & criminal justice reform, education, safety net, health, and poverty policy & legislation in Virginia. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as The New Yorker, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Fence, Virginia Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, Guernica, Gulf Coast, & the Best New Poets 2013 and 2015 anthologies, among others, and garnered prizes from Indiana Review and Puerto del Sol. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. Her essays have appeared in Slate, The Guardian, Pacific Standard, and The Rumpus, as well as Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Staige D. Blackford Prize for Nonfiction in 2016. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.