Amanda Kelley Corbin has worked as a graduate assistant, advertising sales representative, substitute teacher, newspaper reporter, delivery driver, property manager, and retail salesperson at a hardware store and at a lingerie shop. She has written more than 100 newspaper articles which have appeared in three eastern Kentucky newspapers. She writes fiction, memoir, poetry, and book reviews. Her work has appeared in The Accolade, Inscape, Kentucky Monthly, JMWW, Eunoia Review, Fried Chicken and Coffee, American Book Review, Madcap Review, and the anthologies & Grace: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2015 and The Message is Sudden Thunder (2016). She co-edited the 2013 edition of Inscape (Morehead State University) and served as an editor-in-chief of the Summer 2017 issue of Limestone (University of Kentucky). She works at the Human Development Institute at the University of Kentucky and lives in Lexington with the poet Sean L. Corbin and their two sons.
BFA in Creative Writing, Morehead State University
MFA in Creative Writing, University of Kentucky
- Human Development Institute
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