Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. She is a Lecturer of Poetry in Creative Writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory.  Much of her audio work focuses on how sound installation can be a route to a somatic, collaborative poetics.

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Her work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, AUDIRE, and Dartington International Music Festival. She is a recipient of a 2021 writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She has also been supported by the Arts Club of Washington, Koster Foundation, and Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

 

Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, West Branch, Quarterly West, Interim Poetics, Academy of American Poets (online), This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2021), Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology (Crested Tit Collective, 2020), and Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press, 2025). Her visual poetry was awarded the 2021 Virginia Tech / Poetry Society of Virginia Prize, juried by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and she was a finalist for the 2023 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She was also co-editor of The New River: A Journal of Digital Art and Literature from 2021 to 2023.

 

She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech and an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of East Anglia.

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Her work often explores performance studies, ambient literature, reparative writing, ecofeminism, selfhood, and structures of silencing.