Nonfiction — Amy Leach (Whiting Award 2010)Amy Leach

Nonfiction — Amy Leach (Whiting Award 2010)

Whiting Award · 2010 · Winner

Whiting FoundationApril 1, 2010Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Whiting Award	2010	Winner	“Nonfiction — Amy Leach”

About This Book

Amy Leach is recognized for her lyric essays — later collected in Things That Are — for her playful and profound meditations on the natural world and cosmic wonder. This record is a writer-level placeholder for her Whiting Award.

About the Author

Amy LeachAmerican

Amy Leach is an American non-fiction essayist known for her lyrical, imaginative writing style grounded in the natural world. She grew up in Texas as a Seventh-day Adventist, earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa, and teaches creative writing at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. Her essays have appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and Granta, earning her a Whiting Award, Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and Pushcart Prize.