Amy Estes is a writer, storyteller, and educator from Sacramento, CA
Amy Estes is writer, educator, and storyteller living in Sacramento, California. In 2023, she was selected as a Lambda Literary Fellow, and has attended the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop as both a participant and a Peter Taylor Fellow. Amy’s writing has been featured on The Rumpus, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. She is currently seeking representation for her memoir, Closet Weirdo, about her experience growing up as a closeted queer kid in an Evangelical Christian community, and working on a novel. In July 2025, she will graduate with her MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Featured Writing
KHÔRA
Won’t Someone Think Of The Women?
McSweeney’s
I Am A Trader Joe’s Parking Lot And I Am Here To Destroy You
The Rumpus
‘Til Death
Reading, Writing, Ranting, Recommending
Amy on Substack
Reading, Writing, Ranting, Recommending is a weekly Substack where Amy shares the things that are currently taking up space in her brain. Often witty and never boring, this Substack is an opportunity to connect with Amy The Person instead of Amy The Writer.