Amy Kenny is a Whitehorse-based writer.
Her journalism has been published by National Geographic Book Publishing, Hazlitt, Vice, Walrus, Up Here, Canadian Geographic, Explore, The Hamilton Spectator and Yukon News. In 2016, she was named journalist of the year at the Ontario Newspaper Awards.
Her fiction, reviews and poetry have appeared in Room Magazine, The Antigonish Review, The Maynard, Prism, The Humber Literary Review, Monday and Time and Place.
She graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2004. In 2014 she completed the Humber School for Writers program in creative writing by correspondence, where she was mentored by David Adams Richards. In 2019, she graduated from the University of British Columbia with an MFA in creative writing.
Amy also works as a silversmith and leatherworker under the brand AmyKny, and as a personal trainer, specializing in endurance sports (marathons and ultramarathons), under Amy Kenny Kinetics.
Email: ameskenny@gmail.com
Twitter: @AmyKny
Instagram: @AmyKny
IRL: Probably running
