Amy Gerstler is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays, journalism, and art criticism.

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Zoom reading for Brooklyn Rail Magazine

With Elaine Equi, Jerome Sala and Jack Skelley

10 am pacific time/1pm eastern time

details TBA!

Featured Books

Index of Women

  • "[Gerstler has been] one of my favorite poets since I read her book Bitter Angel. Now I have every book of hers on my shelves." 

    —Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

  •  “Intimate, funny, poignant, present . . . true to the inner lives of so many women . . . beautifully crafted . . . what’s miraculous […] is that this clamor of voices across continents and centuries somehow amounts to the experience of a single mortal: she contains our multitudes.” 

    —Dinah Lenney, in Los Angeles Review of Books, author of The Object Parade

  • "[Gerstler's poetry is] extremely rich. But not cluttered and not loud . . . the supernatural, the sexy mundane, the out-of-sight are simply her materials, employed as they might be in a piece of religious art." 

    —Eileen Myles, author of Evolution