Amber Flora Thomas

Amber Flora Thomas is the author of three collections of poetry: Eye of Water, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), The Rabbits Could Sing (University of Alaska Press, 2012), and most recently Red Channel in the Rupture (Red Hen Press, 2018). A recipient of the Dylan Thomas American Poet Prize, the Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, and the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared in Orion Magazine, Colorado Review, Ecotone, The New England Review, Callaloo, and Alaska Quarterly Review, as well as Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and numerous other journals and anthologies. Thomas is a Cave Canem fellow and faculty member. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Sewanee Writers Conference. She earned her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.