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Amaryllis Chanda Feldman (born 1976) is an American poet. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Oberlin College, [1] where she has taught since 2017. [2] Feldman was born in Tennessee in 1976. [3] [4] She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English language and literature from the University of Chicago (1999), [5] as well as a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Cornell University (2003). [1] [3] [6] She also held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University from 2008 to 2010, [7] as well as a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009, [8] and National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 2011. [9] Feldman has been noted in Callaloo as an example of Black people in poetry at American colleges and universities, alongside other Black poets. [10]
Her first collection, entitled Approaching the Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2018; the book contains four sections, with 22 poems total. [11] The collection received a positive review from Nan Cohen, [12] as well as a review from David M. Brunson. [13] A second collection, Glance, received the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award from the same publisher as of 2024 [update] . [3]
