Amanda Gunn, Current MFA Student, Wins Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

Amanda Gunn, Current MFA Student, Wins Auburn Witness Poetry Prize

Amanda Gunn (MFA Writing Seminars 2015) has won the 2014 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize for her poems “My Father Speaks,” “Raid at Combahee River, June 2, 1863,” and “Eastern Shore Ghazal.” Gunn will receive $1,000, publication in the Southern Humanities Review, and an invitation to read at the 2014 Auburn Writers Conference. Gunn’s poems have appeared in New South and Weave Magazine. The Auburn Witness Poetry Prize was established in honor of the late poet Jake Adam York and is judged by the editors of the Southern Humanities Review.