Amy Monticello

Amy Monticello (born 1982) is an American essayist, lecturer, and non fiction writer. Monticello is the author of Close Quarters (Sweet Publications, 2012) and How to Euthanize a Horse (Arcadia Press, 2018).

Life and work
Amy Monticello was born in Endicott, New York in 1982. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at The Ohio State University in 2008. Her book Close Quarters, is classified as a chapbook. In constructing her non-fiction chapbook she took a collection of her shorter essays from a larger project she was working on and used the novella form as a guide.  She is an Associate Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, MA.

Books

 * The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing. Co-authored with Jason Tucker. Routledge, 2023.
 * Close Quarters. Sweet Publications, 2012.
 * "How to Euthanize a Horse." Arcadia Press, 2018.

Anthology Inclusions

 * Tuscaloosa Writes This, “Communing with Cancer,” Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013.
 * Going Om, “Against the Pursuit of Happiness,” Ed. Melissa Carroll, Viva editions/Cleis Press, 2014.

Journal Publications

 * "The Reduced World." under the gum tree.
 * "How to Tell the Story of an Ordinary Death." Los Angeles Review of Books.
 * "Not Nothing." Brevity.
 * "My Only Child Scatters My Ashes." ''CALYX.
 * "Resuscitate." Hotel Amerika.
 * "Letters From My Father." Brain, Child.
 * "A New and Magical Life." The Rumpus.
 * “Waiting for My Milk During the Polar Vortex, I Channel William Blake.” The Common
 * “Moderation is the Key.” Prime Number.
 * “Shame.” Brevity.
 * “The Short Summer.” The Common.
 * “The Faces We Carry.”The Nervous Breakdown.
 * “Eighteen One-Sided Conversations With My Father.” Women Arts Quarterly Journal. 
 * “Playing the Odds.” The Nervous Breakdown.
 * “Communing with Cancer.” Salon.com.
 * “Loving Captain Corcoran.” Stone Canoe.
 * “I Know Who You Are.”The Nervous Breakdown.
 * Untitled 140-character micro-essay. Creative Nonfiction.
 * “How to Euthanize a Horse.” Natural Bridge.
 * “The Other Woman.” Iron Horse Literary Review. Notable Essay in Best American Essays.
 * “Christmas 1984.” The Nervous Breakdown. 
 * “Suburban.” Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.
 * “A Good Man.” WomenArts Quarterly Journal.
 * “Chimney Swift.” Sweet: A Literary Confection.
 * “The North Side.” Phoebe. 
 * “All the Ways We Fool Ourselves.” Waccamaw.
 * “Getting Caught.” Prick of the Spindle.
 * “Winter.” Upstreet.
 * “Miracles We Get.” Redivider.
 * “Tradition.”The Rambler.
 * “Looking Forward.” Word Riot.
 * “Errands.” Flashquake.

Craft Articles

 * “In Defense of the Confessional: Parenting, Inclusivity, and J.D. Schraffenberger’s ‘Droppies Babies’.” Essay Daily. 2014.
 * “Hello New Year, Hello 30: A Craft Conversation with Marissa Landrigan.” Her Kind: A Literary Community Powered by VIDA. 2013.
 * “More Than One True Thing.” Waccamaw. Issue 11.
 * “The Place Where Opposing Instincts Meet.” Tuscaloosa Writes This. Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013.

Honors

 * Winner, Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize, 2016.
 * Winner, S.I. Newhouse School Prize in Nonfiction, 2013.
 * Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2011.
 * Recipient, certificate of appreciation for collaborative course development. Ithaca College Division of Student Affairs, 2011.
 * Nominee, Pushcart Prize, 2010.
 * Finalist, The Journal’s Alumni Flash Writing Contest, The Ohio State University, 2010.
 * Nominee, The Ohio State University's Graduate Associate Teaching Award, 2007.
 * Recipient of commendation letter for excellence in teaching from The Ohio State University's First-Year Writing Program, 2006.
 * Winner, Ithaca College Writing Contest in creative nonfiction and poetry, 2005.