Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her debut collection Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in September 2026. Much of her audio work focuses on how sound installation can be a route to a somatic, collaborative poetics. ​

 

Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, FENCE, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, West Branch, Quarterly West, Interim Poetics, Academy of American Poets (online), DIAGRAM, 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.

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Her multimedia 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, as well as a Moondancer Fellowship from the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. She has also been supported by the Arts Club of Washington, Koster Foundation, and Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

 

She is an Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing, Poetry) at Augusta University and has previously taught at Oberlin College & Conservatory and Virginia Tech.

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