I've been writing and thinking about poetry since I was 8 years old. I'm interested in the poetry of the everyday, and what it can do to liberate & suspend, interrogate, heal and transcend. 
Published Poems
Addis Hot Box, Harar to Dar Chant, Last Letter to Kenya: Fortunate Traveller 
This Fall I Will Teach a Course on Loneliness: Punch Drunk Press
Loving Ghazal: The Pedestal Magazine
Sunday School for Lovers: The Moth Magazine (Ireland)
Blind Ghazal: In Posse Review
Alone Ghazal: Horse Less Review
Antiques: La Petite Zine
Failure: Konundrum Literary Engine Review
Sketching a Birth: Comstock Review
Cleaning Up at Midnight: The Evansville Review
How Love Changed Me: After Hours
The Optimist (excerpt): Paul Revere's Horse
Ready for All This: Paul Revere's Horse
Stephen Muruli Dies in Campus Fire: Contrary Magazine
Picture This: Contrary Magazine
Leaving: Contrary Magazine
Our Father is a Heart-Ist: Horse Less Review
Two is One Now: Horse Less Review
Desert Walking: Painted Bride Quarterly
Autobiography with Bones:Primavera
Anthropology of Pain: Stray Dog
Goat Shadows: Wicked Alice
Let's Isolate and Make a Baby: Wicked Alice
How Slow: Wicked Alice
Men Return to Your Waiting Wives!: Wicked Alice
(W)holiness: poetry chapbook (2008)
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(W)holiness -- Poems inspired by travel in Morocco & India, Steracle Press. Printed on a Vandercook 5 at Columbia College Chicago, limited edition, 75. 
Personal Dictionary of Terms: Letterpress Deck of Cards (2008)

A letterpress project featuring a personal dictionary term on one side and a related image on the other. Limited edition, set of 25, 10 cards in each set. Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, 2008. 
Reviews & Praise
“Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein adds one poem, amongst her two, to this exploration of denial and truth. Denial is this poet’s strong suit, and she delves into it seamlessly. In an ironical and wonderfully realized poem from “The Optimist,” she writes, “The wind has many names but none that explain // How every ion enters the iris as the gates close, / Making us all blind to the vision that would stun // Us into waking again one again to want and birth. / No, the shut green eye doesn’t do us any good.” Paul Revere’s Horse, Volume 1 Number 2, Fall/Winter 2009, Biannual, Review by Teri Denton
Completed Manuscripts:
Anthro(a)pology: Poems Written from an Apologetic Distance
Take Me With You
Residencies | Fellowships
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2014 Arthur Rimbaud House, Residency, Poetry
Harar, Ethiopia
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2006 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship, Poetry
Johnston, Vermont, USA