Amanda Lin Hayes

Close attention is the guiding value of both my writing practice and my pedagogy. I believe that writing, more than something we produce, is a way of thinking through complex problems individually and collectively. My writing interrogates ideas of animality, monstrosity, imagination, and communal care. I am interested in how we humans define what is normal or abnormal, sacred or profane. I'm currently working on a poetry collection about sea creatures that engages with ideas of migration, embodiment, and queer ecology.