About John Amen

John Amen's debut poetry collection, Christening the Dancer, was released by Uccelli Press in 2003, and was nominated for the Kate Tufts Award, the Lenore Marshall Award, the Oscar Arnold Young Award, and the Brockman-Campbell Prize. He has published poetry and fiction in various magazines and journals, and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Amen has traveled widely as a musician, both with a band and as a solo act, and has released three musical recordings: Wild but Willing, Eat Mine, and Four Forty Four. His new recording, All I'll Never Need, was released by Cool Midget Records in August 2004.

He is also an artist, working with oil and acrylics, colored pencils, and pastels. Further information is available on his website: www.johnamen.com.

Amen founded and continues to edit the award-winning literary and arts bimonthly, The Pedestal Magazine, www.thepedestalmagazine.com.

He has lived in New York and New Orleans and currently resides in Charlotte, NC.