![]() “Me (Moth)” focuses on grief because Amber was dealing with her own grief as she wrote it. ![]() She feels that just wouldn’t have worked as well as it does had she wrote it in prose. ![]() The lyricism and complexity of each of these books were highly impactful on her, and “Me (Moth)” seemed to be the perfect story to tell in verse. Amber also feels at home when she is writing in verse.īut she never thought to write in verse for young adults until she read other novels in verse like “A Long Way Down”, “Brown Girl Dreaming”, and “The Poet X”. ![]() She is mesmerized by the timelessness that poetry has. This was the format that made sense to her, as she likes the immediacy and brevity of poetry. Poetry is her first love, and she began writing poetry when she was in the sixth grade. ![]() Her work has been published in Provincetown Arts, Ploughshares, and Decomp, as well as other places. Amber McBride got her BA in English from James Madison University in the year 2010 and got her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in the year 2012.Īmber has taught English Literature, English Composition, and Introduction to Poetry at Strayer University, James Madison University, and Northern Virginia Community College. ![]()
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