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 Reporting Project’s Bright Spot: Brake For Good Faith • 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