God gave everyone a talent. He didn't give me math, or spelling, or a clear understanding of when to use a comma, but He did give me a love of literature and the ability to string words together. So for Him, and for everyone who has ever taught me, critiqued me, inspired or encouraged me, it's about time I did something. So, here goes...
Amy Willoughby-Burle’s fiction has appeared in Potomac Review, Sycamore Review, Inkwell, The MacGuffin, Summerset Review, Reed Magazine, and Cuivre River Anthology. Her story “Stone Jesus in the Front Yard” which appeared in The MacGuffin was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007.
She haa s story forthcoming in Pennsylvannia English.
She is a graduate of East Carolina University. Born and raised and now back in North Carolina she has also lived in Virginia, New York, California, and Missouri working as an event planner, a receptionist, a cashier, a housekeeper, a newspaper editor, a certified nurse’s aide and much more. What some would see as a fear of commitment she has used as a map of life and knowledge, allowing all that is awful and beautiful to permeate her fiction--living in that moment of transition.
She resides now in Candler, NC just west of Asheville, with her husband and two children.
