Amanda Hawkins

Amanda Hawkins is a poet with an MA in theological studies from Regent College in Vancouver and who teaches writing in Northern California. Their debut poetry collection, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones, was published by Wandering Aengus Press in 2025. They have appeared in Terrain.org, Tin House, Orion, and other journals, and have won prizes including the Editors' Prize for Poetry from The Florida Review. Hawkins contributed the poem "After the Election" to Terrain.org's Letter to America series in 2018 and had two poems published there in September 2018. Their work has also appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books as a contributor.