Biography
Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her debut collection Into the Into of Earth Itself will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2026.
Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, West Branch, Quarterly West, Interim Poetics, Academy of American Poets, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. Her work has been anthologized in This Is What America Looks Like (Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 2021), Rewilding: An Ecopoetic Anthology (Crested Tit Collective, 2020), and Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (Penn State University Press, 2025).
Previously, she was coeditor of The New River: A Journal of Digital Art & Literature, where she curated the journal’s first retrospective exhibition, organized accessible events on electronic literature, and helped preserve its archives back to 1996.
Much of Hodes’s multimedia work focuses on how sound installation can be a route to a spatial, embodied poetics. This work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, AUDIRE, Dartington International Music Festival, and the University of Kent. She has also been supported by the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Dairy Hollow Writers’ Colony, Arts Club of Washington, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Koster Foundation, and Fulbright Commission.
Her research has been presented at numerous conferences, such as the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, e-Learning and Pedagogies Conference, and New Media Caucus.
