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Landlocked: Poems

​by Amy Ballard​

Shhhh. . .Murder!

Amy's short story "Bookish Dreams" can be found in a new anthology from Darkhouse Books. Order the library-themed cozy/noir collection Shhhh… Murder! now.

Amy Ballard

Writer  Teacher  Speaker Photographer

Amy grew up in Maine and now lives in southern Idaho with her car-seller husband and their three children. Her poetry has appeared in the online GNU Journal, Kansas City Voices, and elsewhere. Her fiction was most recently published in 101 Words and Crack the Spine. In her magazine and news articles, she expresses her interest in people and their stories. When not teaching school, she enjoys reading, sewing, baking, and being outdoors, in addition to writing. Her mother is inspirational novelist Susan Page Davis.

Treetop, photography by Amy Ballard

Poetry collection chapbook of poems Landlocked by author poet Amy Ballard Maine Idaho place home
black and white, trees, Amy Ballard

​Read "Find Me," an ekphrastic poem, in the Toledo Museum of Art's 2020 anthology.


Download Maura Yzmore's free eBook of Quarantine Quanta contest winners. Amy's flash story "A Backward Tragedy" is on page 6.


Read Amy's literary horror story "The Bleak Wood" in Barely South Review here.

"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!" Romans 11:33