
Amy Watkin
Amy grew up in the Fargo area and knew she wanted to be a teacher from a very young age. Once she figured out that teaching college English meant that it’d be her job to read great books and talk to other bookworms about them, she was hooked, and earned degrees from NDSU and UND. She’s now been at Concordia College for twenty years, teaching a wide variety of classes on things like British literature, book banning, English for language learners, Stephen King, genocide, and gender studies. Amy has also written a few academic books on well-known writers, a column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and scripts for the podcast Here’s Where It Gets Interesting. She is the president of the Northern Plains Chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, and has been a judge and facilitator for the Minnesota Book Award. She’s always working on a new research project but also enjoys time with family, quilting and sewing, summers at the lake, and knitting.