Amber Flame

2017 Alumna

Cottage: Cedar

BIO: A former church kid from the Southwest, Flame’s work is published widely and explores spirituality and sexuality, cross-woven with themes of grief and loss, motherhood and magic, and interstitial joy. A 2016 and 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee and Jack Straw Writer Program alum, Amber Flame’s first full-length poetry collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was published in 2017 through Write Bloody Press. While serving as Hugo House’s 2017-2019 Writer-in-Residence for Poetry, Flame completed her second book of poetry, titled apocrifa, forthcoming from Red Hen Press. A voracious reader and passionate lover of words, Flame has dedicated more than 15 years teaching, training, and implementing programming in education equity, Black media, youth empowerment, and with women and youth impacted by incarceration. Through her work at Hedgebrook, Amber Flame is committed to fighting racism through centering the voices of women-identified Black and brown humans.