Amy Letter
I am a writer and artist whose stories, essays, and poems appear in journals and magazines, such as Quarterly West, The Rumpus, Louisiana Literature, Fringe, storySouth, Center, and others. My short films are made-for-youtube adventures in internet storytelling. My material art projects are narrative art, storytelling in a more tactile form. I teach literature and writing to college students in South Florida. Click here for my web CV.
My stories often feature well-meaning characters caught in disorienting crises: real/un-real/super-real events born between myth and physics. I am as fascinated by the descent into the beastly as I am by transcending the warm decay of the material world.
I was born in Fort Lauderdale and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. I have worked many jobs, from truck-stop desk clerk to the tour guide at the beautiful and historic Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco. I once subsisted as an undocumented worker in a foreign country, which is quite as much fun as everyone says.
The top-grossing films the year of my birth were Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. All three are favorite films of mine, and all three augured much for the person I would become, though I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. I mean, I don’t believe that hit movies transmit mind beams into babies’ brains and program their personalities. Really. I don’t.
Currently
I've been trying to pull fiction into more dimensions, both physically and chronologically. It's meant working with "science fiction" themes, and also with a Dremel Stylus. It's a voyage of discovery; I follow the call, even if it leads me into hardware stores and time machines. Click here for more about my current work.
