Amy Wright joined the faculty at East Tennessee State University after serving as their 2022 Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric, and Science. She has authored three poetry books, six chapbooks, and a nonfiction debut that received a Nautilus Gold Award for Lyric Prose. She has also received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.