Amy Dryansky's second book, Grass Whistle (Salmon Poetry, Ireland) received the 2014 Massachusetts Book Award for poetry. Her first, How I Got Lost So Close to Home, won the New England/New York Award from Alice James Books, and individual poems appear in a variety of anthologies and journals, including Harvard Review, New England Review, Barrow Street, Orion and The Women’s Review of Books. She's received honors/awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, MacDowell Colony, Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is currently the assistant director of the Culture, Brain & Development Program at Hampshire College.