amber

I’m a queer poet and book artist relocating from hyper-rural Michigan to Chicago. My work has appeared most recently in Menacing Hedge and Stirring, and I have two chapbooks forthcoming in 2016 – “Lost Birds of the Iron Range” from Porkbelly Press and “Darling Girl” from Dancing Girl Press.

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female masculinity

masculine-of-center fashion

queer fashion

My Superhero Shirt and the Allure of the Unflattering

“Objectively, aesthetically, I find women’s clothes attractive. Just… on other women. But I’m intensely uncomfortable wearing them. There’s something about the way they’re made that make me feel like I’m…

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Feb 15, 2016

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All The Things I Should’ve Said In My Rural Town

“The first girl I ever kissed spent her summers on her uncle’s farm, helping him bale hay. She would come back to school with the insides of her wrists all…