Amy Kenny is a writer and visual/textile artist.

She earned a journalism degree from Ryerson University in 2004 and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario where, among other things, she works as a reporter for The Hamilton Spectator.

Her leather line, Crown Land , is sold online , through White Elephant and at select fine craft markets

The nuts and bolts of her professional life can be found below. (Some of) those of her personal life can be found above by clicking News .

Non-fiction has been published by …
- National Geographic
- Canadian Geographic
- Explore Magazine
- The Hamilton Spectator
- OpenFile Hamilton
- Tidings Magazine
- Hamilton Magazine
- HMag

Web content and promotional work for…
- The McMaster University Outdoor Club
- St. Joseph Immigrant Women’s Centre
- The Yellow Pages Group
- Tourism Hamilton

Fiction and poetry have appeared in…
– Monday Magazine (second place in annual short fiction contest 2006)
- Room (first place in annual short fiction contest 2010)
- Awarded an Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve grant in 2011
- The Antigonish Review

Paintings have been displayed at…
- Art Gallery of Hamilton Fall Art Sale
- Loose Canon Gallery
- Hamilton Artists Inc.
- My Dog Joe
- Mixed Media
- Volunteer Hamilton
- Hamilton Timeraiser
- Casbah Lounge
- Vibewrangler Studio.

Textile art has sold/currently sells at…
- Outdoor Art Show and Sale at Toronto’s Queen West Art Crawl
- Hillside Festival and Hillside Inside
- White Elephant in Hamilton, Ontario
- Love, Me Boutique in Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Propeller Clothing, Ltd. in Penticton, B.C.
- The Snug, Inc. in the Isle of Man
- Downtown Bike Hounds in Hamilton, Ontario
- Online at Crown Land

Spare time is spent with…
- Basset Hound Rescue of Ontario
- Supercrawl Curatorial Committee
- GritLit

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