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Amy King grew up in Georgia, received an MA from SUNY Buffalo in 1997, an MFA from Brooklyn College in 2000, and now spends much of her time in Brooklyn and Baltimore. She teaches English at Nassau Community College on Long Island and has been writing poems throughout her numerous careers, which have included working for the Department of Defense, managing a popular fast food restaurant, multi-tasking as a medical technician in Labor & Delivery, serving as a residence counselor and advocate for the learning disabled, directing an ESL school in Manhattan and many other positions better left a mystery.
Her first book, Antidotes for an Alibi (2005), is available from BlazeVox [books].
