Amanda Quaid

Amanda Quaid is a poet, playwright and actress living in New York City. ‘Patient and Daughter Appear Closely Bonded’ won the 2023 Bridport Prize for Poetry and subsequent work has been a finalist for the Philadelphia Stories‘ National Prize in Poetry, longlisted for the UK’s National Poetry Competition and published in Rattle (where Amanda won the Ekphrastic Challenge contest), DMQ Review, and Dead End. Her first opera, The Extinctionist, was praised by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The play on which it was based was a finalist in the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Contest.