Amy Monticello, MFA

Education

• MFA, The Ohio State University
• BA, Ithaca College

Research Interests

• Creative Nonfiction
• Forms of the Essay
• Narrative Theory
• Narrative and Medicine
• True Crime
• Literary Publishing

Publications

Books

• Monticello, Amy and Tucker, Jason. The Routledge Introduction to American Life Writing. Routledge, 2023.
• Monticello, Amy. How to Euthanize a Horse. Arcadia Press, 2018. Winner of the 2016 Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize in Nonfiction
• Monticello, Amy. Close Quarters. Sweet Publications, 2012.

Book Chapters

• Monticello, Amy. “Against the Pursuit of Happiness,” Going Om, Ed. Melissa Carroll, Viva Editions/Cleis Press, 2014.
• Monticello, Amy. “Communing with Cancer." Tuscaloosa Writes This. Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013.

Recent Journal Publications, Creative Nonfiction

• Monticello, Amy. “Last Dye.” Iron Horse Literary Review, 2025. Winner of 2025 Long Story/Essay Contest.
• Monticello, Amy. “A Woman’s Prime.” North American Review. Issue 310.2.
• Monticello, Amy. “Response to My Sixteen-Year-Old Self’s Op-Ed about Columbine Published in the Local Newspaper in 1999.” Harpur Palate. Issue 23.1.
• Monticello, Amy. “How to Tell the Story of an Ordinary Death,” The Los Angeles Review of Books, 2022.
• Monticello, Amy. “The Reduced World,” under the gum tree. Issue Fall 2022.
• Monticello, Amy. “Not Nothing,” Brevity. Issue 67.
• Monticello, Amy. “My Only Child Scatters My Ashes,” CALYX. Issue 31.3.
• Monticello, Amy. “Resuscitate.” Hotel Amerika. Issue 16.1.
• Monticello, Amy. “A New and Magical Life.” The Rumpus.
• Monticello, Amy. “Shame.” Brevity. Issue 45.
• Monticello, Amy. “Loving Captain Corcoran.” Stone Canoe.
  Winner of the 2013 S.I. Newhouse School Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
• Monticello, Amy. “Letters From My Father.” Brain, Child Magazine.
• Monticello, Amy. “The Other Woman,” The Iron Horse Literary Review. Listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2013.

Craft Articles

• Kolongowski, Jill and Monticello, Amy. “The Mundane as Maximalism of the Mind: Reclaiming the Quotidian.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Issue 9.2.
• Monticello, Amy. "The New Greek Chorus: Collective Characters in Creative Nonfiction." Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Issue 4.2
• “Writing the Apple: A Roundtable Discussion with Michelle Herman, Heather Kirn Lanier, Amy Monticello, and Joe Oestreich,” Creative Nonfiction.
• Monticello, Amy. “In Defense of the Confessional: Parenting, Inclusivity, and J.D. Schraffenberger’s ‘Droppies Babies’.” Essay Daily.
• Monticello, Amy. “The Place Where Opposing Instincts Meet.” Tuscaloosa Writes This. Eds. Brian Oliu and Patti White, Slash Pine Press, 2013.

Pedagogy Articles

• Monticello, Amy. “Teaching Brevity: Pennies in My Pocket.‘ Brevity blog.
• Monticello, Amy. “My Favorite Essay to Teach: Dear Sugar #39: ‘The Baby Bird.’” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies blog.

Textbook Inclusions

• Monticello, Amy. “Playing the Odds.” Writing: Ten Core Concepts. Robert P. Yagelski. Albany, NY: Cengage Learning, 2018.