Amra Brooks’ memoir Mother Is a Place is forthcoming from Dopamine Books, 2026. Her novella California was published by Cali Thornhill DeWitt’s Teenage Teardrops. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Inventory, Khôra, Printeresting, 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 is a Professor at Stonehill College where she directs the creative writing program and runs the Raymo Literary Series. She offers private writing workshops as well as workshop collaborations with Corporeal Writing. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Milton Avery School for the Arts at Bard College. Subscribe to her substack