Amanda Larson is a writer and professor from New Jersey. She is a graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California, and of New York University's MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has taught writing and literature at New York University, the City University of New York, Cedar Crest College, Fordham University, and the Dalton School. Her first poetry book, Gut, was published in December of 2021 by Omnidawn Publishing. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is writing a novel and a screenplay.