Amy Ludwig VanDerwater is a writer and teacher living on Heart Rock Farm (The Poem Farm) in Holland, NY. Her first poetry book, FOREST HAS A SONG, will be published by Clarion/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Spring 2013) and her second book, READING TIME, will be published by WordSong/Boyds Mills Press (date TBA). Amy is also co-author with Lucy Calkins and Stephanie Parsons of the grade 2 book POETRY: BIG THOUGHTS IN SMALL PACKAGES (Heinemann, 2013). In addition to poetry, Amy has written local NPR commentaries as well as a column for EDIBLE BUFFALO.
Amy currently serves on the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children committee and as a board member for the Niagara Frontier Reading Council. A former fifth grade teacher, Amy earned her MA at Teachers College, Columbia University where she also worked at the Reading and Writing Project. Over the past 13 years, she has taught hundreds of teachers and children about writing style and process. Amy gives teacher workshops in and out of classrooms, demonstrating how to implement a writing workshop, study literature, and confer with students.
Learn more about Amy's work in schools at her website.
Visit the growing collection of notebook-peeks at Sharing Our Notebooks.
Watch Amy teach writing workshop mini lessons here.
Visit Amy's Amazon author page here.
For More Information:
June 2010 Article about Structure at Two Writing Teachers
October 2010 Poem Farm Feature at Melissa Wiley's Here in the Bonny Glen
January 2011 Interview of Amy with Toby Speed at The Writer's Armchair
April 2011 Potluck Visit to Jama Rattigan's Alphabet Soup
April 2012 Interview of Amy with Renee LaTulippe at No Water River
April 2012 Article about Revision at Laura Shovan's Author Amok
November 2012 Dictionary Hike Feature by Mary Lee Hahn at Choice Literacy (Members Only)
December 2012 Interview with Jone MacCulloch at Check It Out
December 2012 Poem Farm Feature at Tara's A Teaching Life
Snail Mail:
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
7571 Raiber Road
Holland, NY 14080
E-mail:
amy at amy lv dot com
Twitter:
@amylvpoemfarm
February 3, 2016, Hill Country of Texas. Amy, I just have to drop you a quick line to tell you that I occasionally share your poems with my class of approximately 12 older folks as we practice writing our memories. Of course I give you the credit, and we learn from your lovely, thoughtful pieces. Thank you from an older, retired writing teacher--Betty Steubing
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