Amanda Roth
Amanda Roth's work explores motherhood, embodiment, the climate crisis, and revisionist folklore.
She is the author of the full-length poetry collection, A Mother's Hunger (2021), editor of the anthology Out of the Darkness, Into the Light (2022), and co-host of the podcast, Retell Me.
Her work is published or forthcoming in Hayden's Ferry Review, Portland Review, MAYDAY, the lickety split, and elsewhere.
After nearly two decades in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Central Texas with her husband and two sons.
“We're alright, you know?" he says quietly. "You and me, okay?" My chest aches and I nod. "Nothing else is alright." His breath tickles my cheek. "But we are.”
Amanda Roth