Bio
Amber Lee Carpenter earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago. She also received an MA in English from East Carolina University. Her essays and photographs have appeared in publications that include sPARKLE & bLINK, Sinister Wisdom, Two Hawks Quarterly, riverSedge, Mount Hope Magazine, Camas Magazine, and Glassworks Magazine. She currently lives in the Bay Area with her wife, two dogs, and cat.
Publications
Photography
- “Resilience,” Camas Magazine, 2019
- “Toward a Counter Memory: A Collaboration of Photography and Prose,” Punctuate, 2019
- “Loophole,” Glassworks Magazine, 2014
- “Frozen,” Mount Hope Magazine, 2014
Essays & Hybrids
- “Routine Openings,” Writer Advice, 2022
- “Bodies are not meant to,” sPARKLE & bLINK (108), 2020
- “Mother, Daughter,” riverSedge (Vol. 32, Issue 1), 2019
- “What Happened On June 21, 2018,” Essay Daily, 2018
- “The Whole Body Houses Grief,” Two Hawks Quarterly, 2017
- “Male Female,” Sinister Wisdom, 2017
- “Fall from Grace,” Sinister Wisdom, 2013
Poetry
- “Collective Memory,” Glassworks Magazine (Issue 26), 2023
- “Testimony,” SPACES Literary Magazine, 2013
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