Amy Pickworth

Assistant Director, Museum Publications & Senior Editor

BA, Ohio Wesleyan University
MA, University of Maryland-College Park

A writer and editor for more than 30 years, Amy Pickworth has twice served as a Peter Taylor Teaching Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and in 2018 was awarded the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts poetry fellowship. Her poems and critical writing have been published in Diode, Dusie, Forklift Ohio, Ink Node, The Journal (Ohio State), Love’s Executive Order, New Ohio Review, Smartish Pace, Two Serious Ladies and other journals. Her book Bigfoot for Women (Orange Monkey, introduction by Matt Hart, designed by Lucinda Hitchcock) was released in 2014. She works as the editor at the RISD Museum.


BA, Ohio Wesleyan University
MA, University of Maryland-College Park