About

Hello. I’m glad you’re here.

Below you can find my press-ready bio; here, I’d like to share more about who I am and my offerings. As a poet, writing guide, and yoga teacher, I’m interested in the intersections between healing and creativity, movement and mindfulness, wonder and wisdom.

As a queer writer, my work explores nature, desire, the nature of desire, dreams, deepening our connections to the other-than-human (and to each other), formal play, and genre-blending. While my home genre is poetry, I also write creative nonfiction and fiction, in addition to occasional reviews and interviews with poets. My approach is like that of a magpie: does it shine? I’m curious about it.

In my role as writing guide, I love working with writers at all stages, through classes, as well as one-on-one. My heart goes out to those who have deferred their writing dreams for life’s other obligations and want to recommit to their creative work–let’s connect! The Libra sun in me seeks balance, and I’d love to help you balance your creative practice with all the other elements of your life!

I’ve been practicing yoga for 25 years and teaching since 2024; it is a sanctuary for me in its offerings of physical and mental challenge and rest, and of spiritual development and connection. As I grow as a yoga teacher, I’m interested in working privately with small groups (want to host a yoga party in your backyard? Let’s go!), and exploring how yoga and creative practices intersect.

For the most up-to-date info on my musings and offerings, join my Substack, Dream Geographies.

BIO for Press: 

Amie Whittemore (she/her) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press), and the chapbook Hesitation Waltz (Midwest Writing Center). She was the 2020-2021 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and her writing has appeared in Blackbird, Colorado Review, Terrain.org, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University.