“From her beloved Carter County, Kentucky, Amy Le Ann Richardson builds a shrine of words to the natural world. Fueled by a love of the outdoors, the poet observes and records her surroundings with a keen expertise of natural disasters, climate failures, and the ‘lungs of earth gasping.’ Yet she never despairs, balancing catastrophe with contemplation and abolishing fear with veneration of ‘these small wonders’ in her firmly-rooted place.” —Marianne Worthington, author of The Girl Singer
Out of Places, by Amy Le Ann Richardson
Amy Le Ann Richardson was born and raised in Morehead, Kentucky, and holds an MFA from Spalding University. Amy works for Community Farm Alliance as the Eastern Kentucky Food System Resiliency Coordinator. She is a farmer, writer, visual artist, and teacher and has received grants and fellowships from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She is the author of Who You Grow Into (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and Make Believe Worlds We Built Together (Bottlecap Press, 2023), and her work has been featured in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Change Seven, and Kentucky Monthly. She lives and works on her farm in Carter County, Kentucky.