Amy Liann Tudor's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in many literary journals, including Antioch Review, The Louisville Review, Blackbird, and Cream City Review, and she is a recipient of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Her first full-length collection of poetry, A Book of Birds, won The 2008 Liam Rector First Book Prize for Poetry and was published by Briery Creek Press in April 2008. Her second chapbook, The Professor of Bees, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in October, 2011. Amy teaches in the Interdisciplinary Core Program at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky.