Amie Whittemore
Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 2020–2021
Amie Whittemore, born in Illinois on October 12, 1980, earned a BA from the University of Illinois Champaign–Urbana, an MAT from Lewis and Clark College, and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Whittemore is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Nest of Matches (Autumn House Press, 2024). Her poems have won multiple awards, including a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
Whittemore was the 2020–21 Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. She teaches creative writing at Eastern Illinois University and lives in central Illinois.
Read about Amie Whittemore’s 2020 Poets Laureate Fellowship project.