3835 Campus Drive
Architecture Building (145 ARC)
College Park, MD 20742
United States
This workshop is part of the Creative Placemaking Symposium
Speaker:
Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo
Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer, teacher, and catalyst who believes that creativity is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation. Her writing and community work nourish inclusive cultural ecologies for planetary justice. She has been nominated for an Emmy Award, three Pushcart Prizes in poetry and creative nonfiction, a Rainbow Reads Award, and was a finalist for the Nightboat Book Poetry Prize. Her teaching career has spanned research universities, community centers, K-12 schools, arts organizations, and spaces of incarceration.
Recent poetry books include: Catastrophic Molting, FlowerSong Press 2022; Even the Milky Way is Undocumented, Unsolicited Press, 2020; Empty Bowls of Sky, Placeholder Press, 2020.