About
Ami Maxine Irmen has spent her entire life moving back and forth across the Wisconsin/Illinois border; she currently resides in Green Bay. Ami Maxine lives and breathes writing, both for fun (she is the author of Goode vs Melville, Wherever Would I Be, and the forthcoming All Falling Things, and editor of Voices of JAMS) and for work (she is a professor of English). Her poems and short stories have found homes in places like Sinister Wisdom, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Copperfield Review Quarterly. You can often find her in her natural habitat: writing in a cozy café.
Featured Work
Where Would I Be
Life doesn't always show up the way you expect it to.
For most of her life, Lucy, seventeen, has known nothing of her birth parents, creating a myth of a young, struggling couple who wanted to give her a better chance at life – something the Moretti family provided. Lucy loves her parents and four siblings, so much that she worries they’ll feel they’re not enough if she broaches the subject of the family who might have loved her first.
But then she stumbles upon a translucent man dressed as if he's from the 1800s, and she can’t help but wonder who he is, why she’s seeing him, and how on Earth she can look right through him. While searching for answers, Lucy is set on a path to discovering everything she has ever wanted to know about her birth family – and some things she didn’t.
Now, she’s determined to finish what she started, and her journey to uncover her history takes her around her home turf of Chicago to Virginia and all the way to the castle of Dunvegan, Scotland. Through it all, Lucy is determined to see her birth parents, one way or another, and hopefully find herself along the way.
Other Works
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All Falling Things
Forthcoming
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Goode vs Melville
2024
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Voices of Jane Adeny Memorial School
2022