Amorak Huey

Amorak Huey has published four poetry collections, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (Sundress Publications, 2021); Boom Box (Sundress Publications, 2019); Seducing the Asparagus Queen (Cloudbank Books, 2018), winner of the Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize; and Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress Publications, 2015). He has also published three poetry chapbooks: Slash / Slash (Diode Editions, 2021); The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2014); and A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly Press, 2016). Amorak is co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 2018.

Amorak previously wrote as a journalist. During his newspaper career, Amorak worked in a variety of editing and reporting roles for the Tallahassee, Florida Democrat; the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky; the News-Enterprise of Hardin County, Kentucky; the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader; and The Grand Rapids Press in Michigan, where he was assistant sports editor. Amorak's poems appear in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2012; The Poetry of Sex; Poetry in Michigan, Michigan in Poetry; and Poet’s Market 2014, as well as print and online journals including the Southern Review, the Cincinnati Review, the Collagist, Menacing Hedge, Oxford American, Poet Lore, Ninth Letter, Crab Orchard Review, and others. Amorak earned a BA in English from Birmingham-Southern College and an MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University. He is currently an associate professor of writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.