Amanda is a poet and writer living on the banks of the Russian River. With degrees from UC/Berkeley and NYU, she writes freelance and teaches writing and literary analysis from her online classroom, Wordwise Instruction. She has published her writing in such magazines as Threepenny Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Georgia Review and Caketrain. Amanda is also a graphic artist specializing in digital collage as well as poetry editor for Wordrunner eChapbooks.
Published Images
“Rache,” Nonbinary Review, Issue 9: A Study in Scarlet
(available in print; click on thumbail to see enlarged image.)
“small a,” Riddled with Arrows, 2017
“Device 8,” Tishman Review, 2017
“Retrospect,” Stoneboat, 2017
“Ferris Wheel,” Subprimal, 2018
“For the Smiths” and “Familiar Things,” Black Rabbit, 2018
“Lesson 39 When, Where,” Riddled with Arrows, 2018
“Devices, Retrospect,” Stoneboat, 2020
“Uncontained,” Riddled with Arrows, Spring 2021, prize winner
“Discovery” and "Wheels," Nonbinary Review, Issue #24: Industrial Revolution, June 2021
“Drill Deep,” Cover, Josephine Quarterly 2021
“Nourish,” Mud Season Review, Issue 61, April 2022
“Columns of Aspects,” Riddled With Arrows, Issue 5.3, April 2022
“Zero In, Honeyguide, Issue 6, 2023
“Hurricane Hotel,” Fullhouse Literary, Summer 2023
“3 Fish Face,” Honeyguide, Issue 7
“Indicates Long Break in Adjacent Part,” Invisible City, November 2023
“Selected Visual Art by Amanda Yskamp,” Twenty-two Twenty-eight, December 2023
“Calculation” and “Too Sweet,” Nonbinary Review, Issue 34: Lies for Children, December 2023
“Kiss,” Abandon Journal, Issue 4: Abandon Love, 2023
“Over There,” Typehouse,
Volume 10, No. 1, Issue 27, 2023 (p. 82)
“Head Fuel,” The Sprawl Mag, Vol. 2.1, Winter, 2024
“it haunts him still,” Fron//tera, vol. 4: fantasmas//phantoms (print only), April 2024
“Task Manual,” Carte Blanche, Issue 48, April 2024
“Bisect,” Abandon Journal, Issue 5: Abandon Earth, May 2024
Header/illustration for “Paint Yourself Black” by Sarah Thomas, Flash Frog, May 13, 2024
Cover art, Nonbinary Review, Issue 37: False Memories, September 2024
“Fish Scale,” illustration for “There Are Fifteen Theories of Heaven,” by Lupita Eyde-Tucker,
Harbor Review 13, September 2024
“Who,” illustration for “Your tax dollars kill kids and other American dreams,” and “I am not myself,”
by Isaac Pickell, Mayday Magazine, October 7, 2024
“Other People's Dreams,” illustration for story by Emily Rinkema, Flash Frog, November 4, 2024
Illustration for “Ugly,” a story by Jackie Stowers, The Razor, December 2024
Illustration for “Dreams Are Where My Father Lives,” nonfiction by Saroj Kunnakkat, The Razor,
December 2024
Illustration for “The Paw of a Mouse is Called a Hand,” story by Nora Esme Wagner, Flash Frog,
December 2, 2024
“What the Dead Carry,” “What It Takes,” and “Time Doesn't Wait,” illustrations for The Groke, Issue 1:
The Art of Rot & Decay, 2024, pp 21-23
“Travel Lodge,”Ouch, Volume 4, 2025, p. 6
“Evidence” and “Planetary,” Spectacle, Volume 16, 2025
“Strive” and “Screen,” International Human Rights Art Movement Literary Magazine,
First Quarterly Edition, 2025, pp. 47-48
Cover image for Kinpaurak, Issue 1 (March 2025)
“She Remembers,” illustration in Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight, June 30, 2025
“Inner/Outer,” The Shallot, Vol. IV, No. 2, 2025, p. 15
“Beetle Circuit,” Mulberry Literary, Issue 11: Vicissitude (November 30, 2025)
“Overview,” illustration for “Beaches in the Breeze” a poem by Nicholas Vigilietti, Quibble Lit,
Vol. VI, December 2025
Cover image for Small Wonders, Issue 30 (December 2025)
“What Coalesces,” “Upending Solar Arc,” “Inner Workings,” “Body Parts,” and “Window II,” collages in
Seven Story Hotel, Issue 3 (December 2025)
“Wonder Wheel,” collage in NonBinary Review, Issue 43: Carnival (Zoetic Press, February 2026)
“Dig and Delve” and “Natasha,” digital collages in North American Review, Spring 2026, volume 311,
number 1 (pp. 72 and 111)
“Inner Structure,” illustration in Ellipsis, Volume 62, May 2026, p. 91
“Diversion,” “Increments,” and “Passage,” collages in The Lincoln Review, issue 7, pp 114-116
(p 125 in page search box)
“Rapture,” illustration for “For Edna St. Vincent Millet,” a poem by Stephanie Kartolopoulos
in Radar Poetry, Issue 45, June 2026
“Ignited Route,” illustration for “Sweet Tea,” a poem by Shawn Scott Smith in Hellbender Literary Journal
Spring/Summer 2026
“Between,” illustration for “The Light Between Screens,” story by Plamen Vasilev
in Blanket Gravity Magazine, Issue 2, Summer 2026
“Process,” illustration in Happy Hour Review, Issue 30, p. 82.
Cover illustration for Carmalarky, Issue 1 (2026)
Illustration in Timberline Review, Issue 15 (2026)
“Structures of Belief,” illustration in Qwerty, Issue 51: Post & Beam,
Summer 2026 (available in print; click thumbail to see enlarged image.)
Amanda designed headers for the Wordrunner eChapbook site and our new MICRO-PROSE feature, as well as the image in the header above (“Solar Boundaries”) and has contributed covers for nine of our anthologies and two fiction collections:
Strange Encounters (March 2015)
Devices (March 2016)
Pushing Boundaries/Breaking Barriers (March 2017)
Rites of Passage (March 2018)
Upheavals (April 2019)
Onward! (April 2020)
Love (April 2021)
Up-Ending (April 2022)
Salvaged (April 2023)
The Essential Worker (September 2023)
Displacement (April 2024)
Disturbances (May 2025)
The Boy David (September 2025)
Endings (May 2026)
Published Poetry
Click here for poems published in PRINT JOURNALS from 1987 to the present.
On-line journals:
“Not Home,” Boxcar Poetry Review, November 2007
“River” and “In This River Against Ownership,” Chimaera, 2008 (no longer on-line)
“Body Chronicle,” Wicked Alice, 2009
“Times,” Rattle 2017
“River Ghazal,” The Sunlight Press, 2017
“Mycorrhizal Network,” Terse Journal, July 2023 (no longer on-line)
“Field Trip to the Coast,” The Common Language Project: Horizons, May 2025, p. 35
“Odd Job,” Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Fall 2026, p. 7
Published Fiction
“The Scientific Method,” Flash Fiction Online, 2008
“Driveway,” Per Contra, 2010
“Sentry,” 2ndhand, 2010
“Snee,” The First Line, 2013
“Frank's Three,” Suddenly Lost in Words: Short Story Sunday, March 2013
“Ten Blunt Objects,” Per Contra, Issue 29, Fall 2013
“The Good She Did,” Per Contra, 2014
“Salamander,” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, March 2015
“Hazards,” Southword Journal, Issue 30, 2016
“Lines,” Riddled With Arrows, Issue 1.2, June 2017
“Dirt Road to the Main Road,” Sunlight Press, March 8, 2018
“Dowse,” The Victoria Review, 2018
“Child of the Short Spark,” Zizzle, 2019
“Robin and the Pronoun They,” Orca, Issue 1, Spring 2019
“Lindy and the High Water Mark,” Orca, Issue 3, Spring 2020
“Diorama,” Mud Season Review, Issue 57, August 19, 2021
“Swallows,” Riddled With Arrows, Issue 5.3, April 2022
“They Flap Arown,” Isele Magazine, December 30, 2024
“Neither Either/Or,” Orca, Issue 20 (Spring 2025)
“Flood In,” Fahmidan, Issue 25 (Summer 2026)
Interviews
“Amanda Yskamp: Allowing Characters To Surface,” by Ann Fisher, Mud Season Review, September 20, 2021
Blog for NaPoWriMo (poetry and images):
New blog site in progress
Wordwise Instruction:
wordwise-instruction.my.canva.site/language-arts-instruction