Amy Kennedy

Amy Kennedy writes fiction and nonfiction about the ongoing climate crisis and the industry-fueled environmental issues affecting the South. She created the website ALongNewThread.com, an online space that examines ecoanxiety, ecological grief, and environmental justice. Amy is a Loyola Institute of Environmental Communication Fellow, a DeGroot Foundation Courage to WRITE grantee, and a 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Art Grant recipient. Her first book Vanishing Points: Words for Disappearing received an Antenna Press Publishing Award and will be released later this year. Her work has appeared in the Southeast Review.