Riddell, Amy

Amy Riddell joined the Huntingdon College faculty in fall 2023. A college instructor since 1991, she has taught as a professor for Northwest Florida State College, an adjunct instructor for the University of West Florida, and a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Alabama, where she was a graduate Poetry Fellow. Her graduate thesis was recognized with the College of Arts and Sciences’ Creative Thesis Award. She has served as poetry editor and managing editor for the Blackwater Review and as director and lead writer of NWFSC’s Quality Enhancement Plan.

• Bullets in the Jewelry Box, full-length poetry collection published by FutureCycle Press, 2012; Finalist for book award.
• Narcissistic Injury, chapbook published by Pudding House Press, 2010

• What Lasts, Poetry Quarterly, 2016
• Mother’s Requiem, Kentucky Review, online and print, 2015
• Persephone Lost, Prairie Schooner, Winter 2011
• Bluebeard’s Daughter, Prairie Schooner, Winter 2011
• A New Being, Blue Fifth Review online, Fall 2010
• Bullets in the Jewelry Box, Birmingham Poetry Review, Fall 2009
• Portrait of My Father Eating Ice Cream, Birmingham Poetry Review, Fall 2009
• Embrace, Peaks and Valleys, Vol. 9, No.3.
• Lament, Blue Fifth Review online, Fall 2008, nominated for Pushcart Prize
• In Celebration of Fifteen Years, Blue Fifth Review online, Fall 2008
• Grief, Prick of the Spindle online, Vo. 2.3
• The Minotaur Considered, Prick of the Spindle online, Vo. 2.3
• Crocus, Chicken Piñata online, Vol. 1, Issue 1
• Shopping List, Chicken Pinata online, Vol. 1, Issue 1
• Julie Holds a Hummingbird, Chicken Pinata online, Vol. 1, Issue 1
• A Word to Her, College English, 1990
• Thirst, The Rio Grande Review, 1993
• Criminal Intent, Black Warrior Review, Vol. 19.2
• Lullaby for My Other Mother, Black Warrior Review, Vol. 19.2
• Forsaking Our Pearls, Kennesaw Review, Vol. 3.1
• Eating the Vows, Kennesaw Review, Vol. 3.1
• Selling Children in Romania, Birmingham Poetry Review, Vol. 9
• What I Have Been, Central Park, Vol. 21, edited by Eve Ensle

• Finalist, FutureCycle Press Poetry Book Prize, 2012
• Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2008
• College of Arts & Sciences Creative Thesis Award, University of Alabama, 1992
• Graduate Poetry Fellowship, University of Alabama, 1991