Amy Kenny is a Whitehorse-based writer and artist. She has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She currently acts as the editor of Up Here Business<\/em>, where her work has been nominated for National Magazine Awards: B2B. When she was managing editor of Yukon, North of Ordinary<\/em>, it won magazine of the year at the International Regional Magazine Association Conference. For her reporting with The Hamilton Spectator, s<\/em>he was named journalist of the year at the Ontario Newspaper Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has also worked as a producer and reporter for CBC. Her journalism has been featured in magazines including Up Here<\/em>,Walrus<\/em> and Explore<\/em>, and she has written for various travel guides from National Geographic Book Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Her creative writing has appeared in The Antigonish Review<\/em>, The Feathertale Review<\/em>, The Humber Literary Review<\/em>, The Maynard<\/em> and more. She also published It’s Weird Up Here<\/em>\u2014a collection of illustrated stories about the North\u2014with artist Tedd Tucker<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amy Kenny is a Whitehorse-based writer and artist. She has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She currently acts as the editor of Up Here Business, where her work has been nominated for National Magazine Awards: B2B. When she was managing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amykenny.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}