Amy grew up on California’s central coast where she dedicated her early life to theater and wearable art before dedicating her life to mythology, fairytales, and the connections between land, body, and menstruation. She holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she founded Wisdom Body Collective and was the recipient of the Leslie Scalapino and keri edward’s scholarships for gender activism. In 2019 she was a writer at Mudhouse Residency in Crete, and Writer’s Workshop Paris hosted by Carve Magazine and Dallas Writer’s Workshop.

 She is an editor of More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima and runs Wisdom Body Collective’s imprint In Process. Her work can be read/is forthcoming in Entropy, Vol1 Brooklyn, Denver Quarterly, TYPO, Full-Stop, Ecotheo Review and elsewhere. @amybobeda on twitter. She currently lives in eastern Colorado where she teaches beginning writing and poetics.