Amy Dupcak [dupe-check] is a speed-walking New Yorker with a profound love of words. She earned her BA in Liberal Arts with a Concentration in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Fiction from The New School. Since 2012, she’s been an instructor at Writopia Lab, specializing in the college essay and advanced teen seminars, and she worked closely with adult writers at The Writer’s Rock for five years while overseeing operations. Additionally, she works with underserved youth as a Teaching Artist and Publications Associate for 826NYC and with high-school students across the country as a college-essay specialist for The Baly Group. She has designed and led writing workshops for House of SpeakEasy, Medley, Group Coaching HQ, and Apex; volunteered as an adjudicator for the Scholastic Writing Awards and as a Writing Works Mentor with Girls Write Now; and served as a juror for NYC Midnight.

In 2016, Amy published her debut story collection, Dust, on the small press Lucid River. In 2020, she co-edited and designed Words After Dark: A Lyrics, Lit & Liquor Anthology to celebrate the long-running performance series for which she’s written over fifty sets of original trivia. Her prose has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Sonora Review, Entropy, Phoebe, Hypertext, Fringe, and other journals, while her poetry has been featured in Pangyrus, Gramercy Review, Wild Roof, Passengers, American Writers Review, and more. She’s been Editor-in-Chief of Cagibi since Issue #17 in 2023, and many of her photographs and other images accompany the writing featured in the journal. She is currently at work on a second story collection, a poetry chapbook, a YA novel, and other projects.