Amy Tudor received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1994. In 1996, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and her first collection of poems, The Land of Intention, won the Devils Millhopper Press Chapbook Contest and was published in 1997. She recently completed her second collection, Message from Limbo, and has begun her third. A former AmeriCorps volunteer, editor, and college professor, Tudor is currently on the Literary Arts faculty at the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the Arts in Petersburg, Virginia. She is slated to begin work on her doctorate in English at The University of Kentucky in 2004.