Amanda Hodes is a writer and new media artist. Winner of the 2024 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, her book Into the Into of Earth Itself is forthcoming in 2026 from Black Lawrence Press. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Denver Quarterly, [PANK], Pleiades, AMBIT, Prairie Schooner, West Branch, Interim Poetics, DIAGRAM, Academy of American Poets (online), Quarterly West, and elsewhere. As an artist, she is interested in sound installation as a route to an embodied, spatial poetics. Her new media work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, AUDIRE, University of Kent, and Dartington International Music Festival. She currently teaches creative writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory.