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. She also works closely with adult writers at The Writer’s Rock, 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. Additionally, she’s designed and led writing workshops for House of SpeakEasy, Medley, and Group Coaching HQ; 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, Passengers, Wild Roof, American Writers Review, and more. She has been Editor-in-Chief of Cagibi since Issue #17 in 2023, working closely with authors to polish their pieces, and many of her photos 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.