Amanda Quaid
After working in theater for most of her life, Amanda Quaid began writing poetry in 2023 as a way to work creatively with illness. That same year, her poem “Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded” was awarded the Bridport Prize, selected by Roger Robinson.
Subsequent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bellevue Literary Review, Rattle, Poetry Is Currency, Mom Egg Review, Broadsided, LONESOME, Book XI, DMQ Review, Bombay Gin, and Tendrils. Her debut collection, No Obvious Distress, a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize, is out now with John Murray Press and was named one of the Best Books of 2025 by The Independent.
She was raised in New York City, where she works as a dialect coach, teaches at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, and lives with her husband, daughter and chihuahua. She co-edits the ekphrastic poetry zine Metphrastics.