Biography
Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, West Branch, Quarterly West, Interim Poetics, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized in 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).
Hodes was awarded the 2021 Virginia Tech/Poetry Society of Virginia Prize. From 2021 to 2023, she was coeditor of The New River: A Journal of Digital Art & Literature, where she curated the journal’s first retrospective exhibition, organized accessible events on electronic literature, and helped preserve its archives back to 1996.
Much of Hodes’s audio work focuses on how multichannel sound installation can be a route to a somatic, collaborative poetics. This work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, AUDIRE, Dartington International Music Festival, and the University of Kent. She is a recipient of a 2021 writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and has also been supported by the Arts Club of Washington, Koster Foundation, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and the Fulbright Commission.
