Associate Professor
(719) 502-3404 | amie.sharp@pikespeak.edu
Box R16, Rampart Range | PRR-W119Z
Amie Sharp, M.F.A., Seattle Pacific University
Amie Sharp is an Associate Professor of English and Literature. She received an MA
in English from the University of South Florida and an MFA in poetry from Seattle
Pacific University. Prof. Sharp is a member of the Colorado Poets Center, and her
poetry and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies including
Atticus Review, Badlands, the Bellevue Literary Review, BlazeVOX, Burningword Literary
Journal, Cathexis Northwest Press, Tar River Poetry, and Valparaiso Poetry Journal.
Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, was a finalist
for the Lascaux Prize in Poetry, and shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing
Award. She was named one of the “Best 64 Poets of 2018” by Black Mountain Press.
She has performed at the Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, the Colorado Springs
Writers Reading Series, Houston Poetry Fest, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts
Reading Series. She spent the summer of 2018 as artist-in-residence at the Sabina
Cultural Association in Italy.
Prof. Sharp’s chapbook The Sabine Women won the Emergence Poetry Prize and was published
by Red Dragonfly Press in 2019. Several poems from the book were adapted for the fall
2021 production Alternative Perspectives by Sarah Sheppard Shaver and the Drama Dept.
Her manuscript Flare was a semi-finalist for the Crab Orchard First Book Award. Her
next book of poetry, Formations of the West, is scheduled to be published by Main
Street Rag Press in the fall of 2024.
She has previously served as co-chair of the English and Creative Writing Dept. and
is a co-founder of the PPSC Visiting Writers Series.
Pikes Peak State College (Fall 2005-present):
Associate Professor of English and Literature (2021-present)
Assistant Professor of English and Literature (2010-2021)
Co-chair English and Creative Writing (May 2018-2020)
Limited Full-time Faculty (2009-10)
Adjunct Faculty (2005–09)
Aesthetica Creative Writing Award Shortlist, December 2019.
Emergence Chapbook Series Poetry Prize for The Sabine Women, Red Dragonfly Press,
March 2019.
Finalist: the Lascaux Prize in Poetry, March 2019.
Nomination: 2018 Best of the Net for “Train at Night in the Desert,” Burningword Literary
Journal.
Nomination: 2017 Pushcart Prize for “Taking Down the Tree,” Tar River Poetry.
Semifinalist: 2016 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, Flare.
Nomination: 2015 Best of the Net for “Garden Constellations,” Lascaux Review.
PPCC CETL Effective Teaching Student Poster Award Winner Fall 2013.
Adjunct of the Year, Pikes Peak Community College Division of Math and English, 2010.
Anspaugh Creative Writing Award Spring 2003: University of South Florida English Department,
Graduate Studies.
Honors Convocation, University of South Florida, 1997-99.
ENG 2027 Poetry Writing
ENG 2021 Creative Writing I
ENG 2022 Creative Writing II
LIT 2011 American Literature I
LIT 2012 American Literature II
LIT 1015 Introduction to Literature
ENG 1021 English Composition I
ENG 1022 English Composition II
ENG 090 Basic Composition
Books
Formations of the West, Main Street Rag Press, Fall 2024.
The Sabine Women, Emergence Chapbook Series, Red Dragonfly Press, September 2019.
Anthologies
“Name Change,” She Speaks Up! August 2020, p. 8.
“Train at Night in the Desert,” The Lascaux Prize Vol. 6, 2019, p. 47.
“Train at Night in the Desert,” Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology, December 2019,
p. 7.
“Beryllium.” The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018, published by the Black Mountain Press,
September 2019, p. 100.
“Picasso’s Sabine Women, 1962.” The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018, published by the
Black Mountain Press, September 2019, p. 101.
“Train at Night in the Desert.” “Best of 2018 Special Issue,” Burningword Literary
Journal. (Nov. 2018): 13.
“The Minister’s Last Morning,” “Diabetes,” and “My Secret Poems,” What Lies Beyond
the Frame, edited by Stan Galloway and Elizabeth Liebl, published by Unbound Content,
2018.
“Riverwater.” Houston Poetry Fest 2017 Anthology, (Oct. 2017): p. 31.
“Summer Opening.” Poetry While You Wait (Spring 2016): 17.
“The Story of Water.” Ars Nova Singers Shared Visions Anthology (Fall 2015): 19.
“Healing the Crack in the Cosmic Egg.” Ars Nova Singers Shared Visions Anthology (Fall
2015): 33.
“Travel.” Poetry While You Wait (Spring 2012): 22.
“Spring Stage.” Poetry While You Wait (April 2010): 15.
Essays
“Over and Under: Approaches to Hyperbole and Subtlety in Poetry.” Cathexis Northwest
Press, September 2018.
Literary Journals
“Tentalus.” The Poeming Pigeon/The Poetry Box “Pop Culture Issue,” (November 2020):
35.
“People Person.” The Oyez Review, (May 2019): 12.
“The Loss.” The Poeming Pigeon/The Poetry Box “Sports Issue,” (May 2019): 45.
“Train at Night in the Desert.” Burningword Literary Journal, (Jan. 2018): 15.
“Milan.” Cagibi, Jan. 2018.
“The Sceptacle.” Saint Katherine Review 5.3 (October 2017): 27-28.
“On Prayer, or God in an Atom,” “In Praise of Migraines,” and “Upon Franz Wright’s
Death, I Discover He Shared a Birthday with My Father,” Relief (Spring 2017).
“West Tennessee, 1980.” Valparaiso Poetry Review, November 2016.
“Astronomy,” “Processional,” and “Spider Remembers.” BlazeVOX, Fall 2016.
“Taking Down the Tree.” Tar River Poetry (Spring 2016): 36.
“After Surgery” and “For a Holdout,” New Plains Review Fall 2015.
“Jephthah and His Daughter.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 31.2: (Fall 2015).
“The Loss.” Aethlon: The Journal of Sport and Literature (Fall 2015): 109.
“Picasso’s Old Guitarist” and “Circle,” Glint Literary Review, Fall 2015.
“Mists,” “Colorado Springs,” and "A Day Without You," Badlands Literary Review Fall
2015.
“Formations of the West.” The Bacon Review, Fall 2015.
“In the Aftermath of Another Fire.” Apeiron Review, Summer 2015.
"Coffee," “Garden Constellations.” US Represented, 29 October, 2014. Reprinted from
Lascaux Review.
“The Minister’s Last Morning,” “Elizabeth,” and “The Evening and the Morning.” Grey
Sparrow Journal (Fall 2014): 18.
"Nightfall Poem." 521 Magazine (July 2014): 2.
"Garden Constellations." The Lascaux Review, July 2014. Nominated for 2015 Best of
the Net.
“My Secret Poems.” Pisgah Review 7.1 (2014): 72.
“Cutting Down the Old Growth,” “A Geography of Night III," and "Caladesi Island,"
US Represented.
"Prayers" and “Frances and Paul,” Forge 7.2 (Fall 2013).
“Dark Dream,” “Shooter,” “Riverwater,” and “Act V, Scene 3.” Atticus Review, 9 July,
2013.
“Diabetes.” Rearrange, Fall 2012.
“Lessons.” Colorado Poets Center, Fall 2012.
“Black Dog.” Bellevue Literary Review 9.2 (Fall 2009): 148.
“Anniversary Roses” and “Having My Way with Time.” The 2River View, Summer 2004.
“Rocky Mountain Sonnets,” “Sonnet to St. Louis,” and “Love Poem.” The New Formalist,
Summer 2003.
“Pardon” and “Watersong.” The Penwood Review, Spring 2003.
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
Academy of American Poets
Colorado Poets Center
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
Poets and Writers Authors Directory
COPPeR Colorado Springs Artists Directory
National Council of Teachers of English/Two Year College English Association
Golden Key National College Honor Society
Seattle Pacific University MFA Alumni Association
University of South Florida Alumni Association
Poetry, Creative Writing, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, Composition