Her newest novel-in-verse, We Are All So Good At Smiling, comes out in early 2023.

She moved to the Charlottesville area in 2018 and loves calling Albemarle County home. Her work has been published in Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, Decomp and more, and Me (Moth) is her debut novel. Originally from everywhere, Amber was born in Heidelberg, Germany and spent the first 18 years of her life living in several different states. Amber McBride teaches English literature at Northern Virginia Community College and has a BA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines including Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts, DecomP, The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus and others. It’s an exquisite and uplifting novel about identity, first love, and the ways that our memories and our roots steer us through the universe.Īmber is also a poet. Her debut YA novel-in-verse, Me (Moth), is about a teen girl who is grieving the deaths of her family, and a teen boy who crosses her path. She has also taught English Composition, English Literature and Poetry Composition at James Madison University, Strayer University and Northern Virginia Community College.Īmber is the former media assistant at The Furious Flower Poetry Center where she worked putting together programs and readings to honor African American poets and writers including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. She received her BA in English from James Madison University in 2010 and acquired her MFA in Poetry from Emerson College in 2012.

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