Photo: Joseph Brooks
Amra Brooks writes creative nonfiction, poetry, as well as critical essays and reviews about contemporary art. Her novella California was published by Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s Teenage Teardrops. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Inventory, Khôra, Printeresting, Ping Pong: A Literary Journal of the Henry Miller Library, Entropy, This Long Century, and many other publications. She grew up in California and has taught creative writing at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, and Muhlenberg College. She now lives in Providence, Rhode Island and directs the creative writing program at Stonehill College in Easton, MA where she is an Associate Professor. She runs the Raymo Literary Series and co-produces The Electro-Library podcast. She is currently working on a book of creative nonfiction called Your Beginning and Your End. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Bard College.