Amy
Newlove Schroeder's first book, The
Sleep Hotel, received
the Field Prize and was published by Oberlin College Press
in 2010. A founding editor of the literary journal POOL,
Amy now teaches writing at USC. Her poems and essays have
appeared in American Poetry Review,
Boston Review, Witness, Field, Colorado Review, and Ploughshares.
Amy earned her Ph.D. in literature and creative writing
from USC and also studied at UC Berkeley and Washington
University in St. Louis. She spent a year living and
teaching in Istanbul, Turkey, and currently resides in
Los Angeles.