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Amelia Clare Wright

she/her | Writer | Los Angeles, CA, United States

Amelia Clare Wright is a recent graduate of Columbia's MFA program in nonfiction creative writing. She has work appearing in Variant Lit and The McNeese Review, among others. She grew up in Baltimore City and now lives in Los Angeles. She is currently working on a memoir about pain and trying to decide if she wants to be a coral reef or a tree when she dies.

Selected work

Cover of Tales from a place where you can feel all your selves crawling on your skin.

Tales from a place where you can feel all your selves crawling on your skin.

2024

Poetry
Cover of Mantis

The Things We Say Instead

Mantis, 2025

Poetry
Cover of pure slush

Daddy Wright

pure slush, 2020

Poetry
Cover of Black Thumb

Black Thumb

2020

Poetry
Cover of Stonecrop Magazine

Cigarette Burns and Blood on the Carpet

Stonecrop Magazine, 2025

NonfictionEssay
Cover of The McNeese Review

How to Give Away Your Body

The McNeese Review, 2024

NonfictionEssay
Cover of The Blood Pudding

It's always Christmas in the downstairs bathroom

The Blood Pudding, 2024

Poetry
Cover of Oyster River Pages

An Act

Oyster River Pages, 2019

FictionShort Story
Cover of The Rappahannock Review

in which my mom asks me how I learned of her diagnosis

The Rappahannock Review, 2024

NonfictionEssay
Cover of The Bookends Review

A Sometimes Kind of Sanity

The Bookends Review, 2024

NonfictionEssay
Cover of Sad Girl Diaries

Connective Tissue

Sad Girl Diaries, 2024

NonfictionEssay
Cover of Cool Beans Lit

body gold, oh wonder

Cool Beans Lit, 2024

NonfictionEssay
Cover of Drunk Monkeys

True Love and Imagined Families

Drunk Monkeys, 2019

NonfictionEssay
Cover of Variant Lit

Involuntary

Variant Lit, 2022

NonfictionEssay
Cover of The Hunger Journal

Bodies

The Hunger Journal, 2020

NonfictionEssay
Cover of The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Mind Over Matter

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 2019

NonfictionFlash