Amy Steingart’s poetry collection Her Belly Made of Wings was published in 2025, and her first collection I Am Where You Have Put Your Eggs was published in 2019, both from Small White Cat Press. She attended Oberlin College studying creative writing, English literature and theater. She is a co-founder, editor, and contributor to Writers’ Bloc and is published in Lame Duck, Kind Writers, Poetica, Pandemic and RitualWell among others.  She records herself reading her poetry and posts it on her YouTube channel, look for Amy Steingart Poetry.

 

Amy participated in the first cohort of RitualWell’s ADVOT, an online creative community of Jewish writers. This session created the anthology From the Depths—Poems Prayers and Rituals and includes her work. In addition to poetry she writes her own versions of standard Jewish prayers reflecting today’s challenging world.  Amy is inspired to write by listening to John Coltrane, harvesting dreams, and practicing Judaism.  She lives in Brooklyn, New York.