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
Tales from a place where you can feel all your selves crawling on your skin.
2024
The Things We Say Instead
Mantis, 2025
Daddy Wright
pure slush, 2020
Black Thumb
2020
Cigarette Burns and Blood on the Carpet
Stonecrop Magazine, 2025
How to Give Away Your Body
The McNeese Review, 2024
It's always Christmas in the downstairs bathroom
The Blood Pudding, 2024
An Act
Oyster River Pages, 2019
in which my mom asks me how I learned of her diagnosis
The Rappahannock Review, 2024
A Sometimes Kind of Sanity
The Bookends Review, 2024
Connective Tissue
Sad Girl Diaries, 2024
body gold, oh wonder
Cool Beans Lit, 2024
True Love and Imagined Families
Drunk Monkeys, 2019
Involuntary
Variant Lit, 2022
Bodies
The Hunger Journal, 2020
Mind Over Matter
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, 2019