Amy Butcher

Amy Butcher has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in September 2021. The social media accounts linked to from Amy Butcher are: Instagram. Besides social media accounts, amyebutcher has populated their site with The American Scholar: “The Final Word”, The 2026 Sitka Writers Retreat, The Reporting Project's Bright Spot: A Community, Not Just A Town, The Reporting Project’s Bright Spot: Stamps and Reminders, The 2025 Sitka Writers Retreat, New Book Awarded a 2024 Individual Excellence Award by the Ohio Arts Council, Tutka Bay Writers Retreat 2023 ft. Amy Butcher, Amy Butcher (Gettysburg College ’09) on the power of storytelling and helping others, TriQuarterly: Amy Butcher on Writing MOTHERTRUCKER: A Memoir of Intimate Partner Violence Along the “Loneliest Road in America”, Amy Butcher To Moderate Event With Pulitzer Prize Finalist Tommy Orange on Nov. 12, 2022, MOTHERTRUCKER named a finalist for the 2022 Ohioana Book Award, Katie Couric recommends MOTHERTRUCKER, MOTHERTRUCKER featured on NPR All Sides Weekend: Books, Wall Street Journal reviews MOTHERTRUCKER: ‘Alaska Joy Ride’, Good Morning America picks MOTHERTRUCKER as a top pick for November, MOTHERTRUCKER featured on CBS News, Publishers’ Weekly calls MOTHERTRUCKER “a trip readers won’t soon forget,” writing, “[MOTHERTRUCKER] explores myriad issues with nuance and grace, including Indigenous rights, violence against women, religious hypocrisy, and environmental concerns”, Kirkus Reviews calls MOTHERTRUCKER “a searching and deeply empathetic memoir” and “a sobering reflection on verbal and psychological abuse” that “questions the nature of divinity beyond its constricting patriarchal manifestations”, NYT Opinion | “I Know All Too Well How a Lovely Relationship Can Descend Into Abuse”, MOTHERTRUCKER Launch Reading with Melissa Febos and Prairie Light Bookstore, Chicago Review of Books: ‘400 miles with Joy: MOTHERTRUCKER and America’s Loneliest Highway’, Columbus Monthly: ‘Amy Butcher Finds Strength in Nature After an Abusive Relationship’, Pace Women’s Justice Center: A Conversation with Amy Butcher, Fiction Advocate: Interview by EB Bartels, Ask a Bishop: On Writing MOTHERTRUCKER And The Power Of Female Friendship (in conversation with Martha Park, ’11), Columbus Dispatch Review: 'MOTHERTRUCKER memoir speaks to issues of love, abuse, true friendship’, LITHUB: Defiant Women and Defiant Books: A Reading List by Amy Butcher, KCAW Radio: ‘MOTHERTRUCKER author Amy Butcher was looking for a story in northern Alaska. She found a friend instead’, The Daily Iowan: Ask The Author with Amy Butcher, MOTHERTRUCKER Press Release, MOTHERTRUCKER named October selection for Amazon First Reads Program, Goodreads Giveaway for MOTHERTRUCKER, Virtual Writing Classes.