Amber Flora Thomas

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Born (1972-08-27) August 27, 1972 (age 51)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
  • Humboldt State University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
OccupationPoet

Amber Flora Thomas (born August 27, 1972) is an American poet. She grew up in Mendocino, California.[1] Thomas received her Bachelor of Art from Humboldt State University and her Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) in poetry writing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.[2] She has taught at the Dominican University of California and at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks for their MFA program in Creative Writing.[3] Thomas attended the North Carolina Writers' Network Fall Conference in November 2022.[4]

Awards

  • Cave Canem Poetry Prize (2004) for Eye of Water[5]
  • Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize
  • Richard Peterson Poetry Prize
  • Ann Stanford Poetry Prize

Collections

Eye of Water, published by University of Pittsburg Press, 2005 (ISBN: 9780822958932)

The Rabbits Could Sing, published by University Press of Colorado[6], 2012

Red Channel in the Rupture, published by Red Hen Press, 2018

Appeared in

  • Tin House
  • Callaloo
  • Orion
  • Alaska Quarterly Review
  • Saranac Review
  • Third Coast Magazine
  • Angles of Assent
  • A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry
  • Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

References

  1. Almendinger, E. C. (1876). Flora of Ann Arbor and vicinity. Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: Courier Steam Print. House.
  2. Almendinger, E. C. (1876). Flora of Ann Arbor and vicinity. Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: Courier Steam Print. House.
  3. Almendinger, E. C. (1876). Flora of Ann Arbor and vicinity. Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: Courier Steam Print. House.
  4. Moore, Jessie L.; Felten, Peter; Strickland, Michael, "SUPPORTING A CULTURE OF WRITING:", Working with Faculty Writers, Utah State University Press, pp. 127–141, retrieved 2023-10-05
  5. "Contributors' Notes". New England Review. 39 (3): 183–187. 2018. doi:10.1353/ner.2018.0097. ISSN 2161-9131.
  6. Thomas, Amber Flora (2012). The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-1-60223-159-7.

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