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
“Discovery” and "Wheels," Zoetic Press
“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
“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
Amanda designed the header for the Wordrunner eChapbook pages, as well as the image above (“Solar Boundaries”) and has contributed covers for nine of our anthologies and one fiction collection:
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)
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
“Body Chronicle,” Wicked Alice, 2009
“Times,” Rattle 2017
“River Ghazal,” The Sunlight Press, 2017
“Mycorrhizal Network,” Terse Journal, July 2023
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
Interviews
“Amanda Yskamp: Allowing Characters To Surface,” by Ann Fisher, Mud Season Review, September 20, 2021
Blog for NaPoWriMo (poetry and images):
https://fueledfurther.weebly.com
Wordwise Instruction:
http://wordwise-instruction.weebly.com