HIKING UNDERGROUND

Amy Smiley, LCSW, PhD, lives in New York City where she maintains a private psychotherapy practice and has a family. She is a writer of fiction and essays which have appeared in journals in France and the United States. She also creates paperjams – visual poems derived from daily headlines and photographs.  A former professor of French Literature at the Johns Hopkins University (and author of a full-length study on the poetics of the earth in the writing of Louis Aragon, published by Honoré Champion), Amy has also taught classes related to psychoanalysis and social work at New York University.