Amy Woolard is a senior policy attorney with Voices for Virginia’s Children, a public policy and advocacy organization focused on children and poverty. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Virginia School of Law. Her work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Puerto del Sol and Phoebe. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her poem “A Girl Gets Sick of a Rose” won Third Place in the 2011 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize.
