Amy Leigh Wicks

New York poet Amy Leigh Wicks was on a road trip when she met a man in Wyoming and fell in love. The two eloped after she completed her MFA at The New School University, and rode motorcycles to California. They sold their bikes for plane tickets to Wellington, New Zealand, and began to build a life together, eventually moving to Kaikoura. After the 7.8 earthquake in 2016 caused unprecedented damage along the east coast of the South Island, Amy Leigh joined the recovery and rebuild project as a...See more

New York poet Amy Leigh Wicks was on a road trip when she met a man in Wyoming and fell in love. The two eloped after she completed her MFA at The New School University, and rode motorcycles to California. They sold their bikes for plane tickets to Wellington, New Zealand, and began to build a life together, eventually moving to Kaikoura. After the 7.8 earthquake in 2016 caused unprecedented damage along the east coast of the South Island, Amy Leigh joined the recovery and rebuild project as a communications advisor, while completing her PhD at Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters. She is the author of Orange Juice and Rooftops and her poems have appeared on The Best American Poetry blog, in Sport, Ora Nui, and Ika Journal. See less