Amy’s first book Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing received an Antenna Press Publishing Award and is now available to purchase through Antenna’s website or at Paper Machine, Antenna’s printshop and store, in New Orleans. Vanishing Points is a collection of micro-essays and photographs that explores the intersection of Louisiana’s industry and nature, and the emotions elicited by those surreal spaces. Organized into a glossary, this exploration of energy colonialism and ecological grief is designed to feel small to help readers make better sense of the enormity of climate change.
Her work has also appeared in the Southeast Review, Burnaway, Dark Mountain, and AICA-USA. Amy has attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and is currently enrolled in the Lighthouse Writers Workshop Book Project. She is a proud graduate of Appalachian State University.
Amy Kennedy is a writer and educator based in Charlottesville, VA. She writes fiction and nonfiction about the climate crisis, extractive industries, and ecological grief. Amy began her career as a high school English teacher. After fifteen years of teaching, she left the classroom to begin writing full time. She developed A Long New Thread, a website dedicated to examining the environmental issues along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. She is a Loyola Institute of Environmental Communication Fellow, a DeGroot Foundation Courage to Write Grantee, a 2024 NYFA Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant recipient, and an AICA-USA Art Critic Fellow.
For inquiries about presentations or speaking engagements, please email amykennedywriter@gmail.com
