Amy Ratto Parks’ poetry, fiction, and essays appear in literary, popular, and academic journals. She is the author of How to Remember the World, (forthcoming, 2019), a verse novel, Radial Bloom, and two poetry chapbooks, Song of Days, Torn and Mended and Bread and Water Body, the winner of the Merriam Frontier Chapbook Prize. She is the Assistant Director of Composition and the Executive Director of the Institute of Health and Humanities at the University of Montana.