Amy Amoroso, MFA

Amy Amoroso teaches writing in the Honors Program and English Department. Her courses include: Island Ink Literary Journal Publishing, Destiny and Disease: How Illness Shapes Science & Society, Narrative Medicine: Stories of Health & Illness, Thinking in Honors, Honors Capstone, and Story as Medicine with Elders, which won the Association of Jewish Aging Service’s 2025 Innovation Igniter Award. She received her MFA from George Mason University and publishes both fiction and nonfiction, most recently: “The Weight of Her Womb” in HerStry (July 2024) and “Into the Light” in Terrain.org (January 2026). Her essays “Cut Wide Open” (2014) and “Your American Dream” (2020) were selected as Notable Essays in the Best American Essay Collection. Her work has been published in The Sun, Mount Hope, Upstreet, The Maine Review, HerStry, Terrain.org, and others.