Other draft projects by Amanda C. Skuldt

Feral Gaze: A Memoir in Poetry

When perform my poetry my favorite sound is silence. There is real power in that captivation. Not sure what did it, but my love of poetry was re-ignited last summer and as I returned to it after having stopped somewhere along the way, I realized I was writing what Judith Barrington in Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, outlines as memoir saying, “…rather than simply telling the story from her life, the memoirist both tells the story and muses upon it, trying to unravel what it means in the light of her current knowledge.”

As I wrote on through the rest of the year, the themes that have followed me all my life–being on the outside as a queer neurodivergent, struggling against isolation to build family and community, the intersectionality of privilege and oppression, and the tension between trauma and resilience–emerged, and as I held them to the light of my current knowledge,I realized this work just might be memoir  after all.  

Feral Gaze is a collection of 15+ original poems. One piece, “Kolob”, won first place in the 2025 Black Horse Review poetry contest.