Illinois Authors

Amy Sayre Baptista

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Connection to Illinois: Sayre Baptista has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and teaches Humanities at Western Governors University. She lives in Illinois.

Biography: Amy Sayre Baptista's writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017), Corium, SmokeLong Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Butter, Alaska Quarterly Review, and other journals. She was a SAFTA fellow (2015), a CantoMundo Poetry fellow (2013), and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon, Portugal (2011). She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul, a Portuguese-American artist's collective, and Poetry While You Wait (Chicago). She is a co-founder of Plates & Poetry, a community arts program focused on food and writing.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/amy-sayre-baptista
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amysayrebaptista/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/amyjosayre?lang=en
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WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Amy++Sayre++Baptista

Selected Titles

Primitivity ISBN: 1625578709 OCLC: 1049796932 Black Lawrence Press 2018