The poetry collection Into the Into of Earth Itself has been awarded the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, judged by Diana Khoi Nguyen out of 763 submissions. It will be published by Black Lawrence Press in September 2026.

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"Astonished, dumbfounded, horrified and agape at this symphonic opus which documents two sites of ecological disaster: Centralia, PA, a bulldozed near-ghost town where a coal mine fire has been burning underground since 1962, and Palmerton, PA, just an hour away, ‘one of the largest Superfund sites of the east, home’ to the speaker [...]. Amanda Hodes singularly emerges with her own alchemical lyric of excavation that exposes the corporate exploitation of land, exploitative and dangerous ‘dark tourism’ and the extracted innocence of girls. The book aptly quotes ecofeminist scholar Vandana Shiva: this is ‘a culture of rape — rape of the Earth, of local self-reliant economies, of women.’ Here, the mined corpus is that of the exploiters, of exploitation itself. This is a searing indictment for our times.”   

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Take Care, a four channel sound installation, and "A Stream of Data..," a video essay, exhibited at the Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology at Connecticut College from November to December 2022

Visual poem "Women Making a Scene" published on Poets.org/Academy of American Poets online, as the winner of the 2021 Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize.

Take Care, a four channel sound-poetry installation, is exhibited in the Summer Juried Show at the Abington Arts Center (Abington, PA). June 10 - July 25th.

Loophole, a video projection and fabric installation, exhibited at Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College as part of the Undercurrents exhibition. May 20 - June 17

"II.Stories" from the poetic sequence "Alma's Mirrors" published in Prairie Schooner Fall 2021 issue.