Rennie Ament

Rennie Ament is the author of Full-Time Mammal, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2025 Iowa Poetry Prize and forthcoming from University of Iowa Press in April 2026, as well as Mechanical Bull, an Editor’s Choice selection published by Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2023. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Bennington Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Poetry Daily, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Owls Head, Maine.