Amy Weaver, a performance poet and slam artist, has been writing as long as she can remember, but it was not until April 2000 that she first took the initiative to share her work at the microphone. Since that first performance at Dallas’s New Amsterdam Coffee Haus, she has continued to refine and celebrate the spoken word with appearances in Seattle, Birmingham, St. Louis, Oklahoma City, New York, Louisiana, and all points in between as well as across the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. In 2001 she helped carry the Dallas Slam Team to victory in the National Slam Championships in Seattle, Washington, and helped them take the bronze in the 2004 championships held in St. Louis. In 2006, she served as co-coach for Team Dallas on the Indie Finals stage in Austin, TX.

Amy’s slam poetry has been featured in competition at Richland College in Dallas (where she won first place) and at the Southern Fried slam in Birmingham, as well as the Red Room Slam in Dallas, the Dallas Women’s Museum (Oklahoma City), and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (New York). Amy founded and served as President of a poetry club at Richland College, introducing fellow students to the art of the written and spoken word via poetry workshops and a monthly open mic held on the campus. As of 2010, she was at work on a full-length novel, Naked Imagination, and continued to hone her craft with regular slam appearances and tours.

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