Amie Hyson
Voices From Inside
Poet & Group Facilitator
Amie lives in Western Massachusetts where she has been writing poetry & reading out at local open mics since 2016. She joined a Voices From Inside (VFI) writing workshop in early 2017, becoming a facilitator later that year. She has been facilitating a weekly VFI group for incarcerated women at the Franklin County Sheriff's Office since (with a brief hiatus turned virtual adaptation in 2020). She is currently working on getting her her first chapbook manuscript published and putting together a longer book of poetry. Amie loves to share her poems with an audience and is thrilled & honored to have the priveledge of reading at the 2021 Massachusetts Poetry Festival!