Amra I. Brooks

Amra I. Brooks

Professor of English, Curator of the Chet Raymo Literary Series, Faculty Advisor for "The Cairn" Literary Journal

abrooks@stonehill.edu
508-565-1707
Cushing-Martin 130
English

Biography

Professor of English Amra Brooks directs the Creative Writing program and manages the Chet Raymo Literary Series at Stonehill College. Previously, she taught creative writing courses at the University of California in Santa Cruz and San Diego, and Muhlenberg College.

Her memoir Mother Is a Place is set to be published by Dopamine Books in September 2026. Her novella California was published by Teenage Teardrops in 2008. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Inventory, Khôra, Printeresting, Entropy, This Long Century and many other publications. 

Education

  • B.A., Liberal Arts (Concentration: Writing, Literature & Art History), Sarah Lawrence College
  • M.F.A., Creative Writing, Bard College: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Courses Taught

  • Poetry I
  • Poetry II
  • Topics in Creative Writing: Short Fiction
  • Topics in Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction
  • Topics in Creative Writing: Fiction
  • DIY Publishing
  • Projects in Creative Writing

Selected Publications, Awards & Accomplishments

Books

  • Mother Is a Place memoir, forthcoming from Dopamine Books, 2026.

  • California, novella, Teenage Teardrops, November 2008.

Other Publications

  • Untitled, This Long Century: Fifty-One A Collection of Artistic Interventions, Speciwomen, March 2025.

  • “Luxury Index,” Elysium Review, Issue 5. Web. September 2024.

  • “Beginners," essay for This Long Century at Dunes Gallery, Portland, Maine, September 2023.

  • “Goosewing,” Khôra, Issue 20. Web. December 2022.

  • “Ticker,” Khôra, Issue 19. Web. November 2022.

  • “A Natural Calamity,” Khôra, Issue 18. Web. October 2022.

  • “Umbilical,” Khôra, Issue 17. Web. September 2022.

  • Untitled, This Long Century. Web. July 2018.

  • “Breathing Asteroids,” Entropy Magazine. Web. May 2018, excerpt.

  • “From Breathing Asteroids,” Entropy Magazine. Web. July 2017, excerpt.

  • “The Country Lane Ghost,” GHOST, Printeresting Publications, October 2015.

  • "East End/Aspirate," Inventory Magazine, Issue 08 Spring/Summer 2013.
  • Wedding Cake House Artist-in-Residence, Providence, RI, 2024.
  • Stonehill College Faculty Fellow, 2023-2025.
  • Visiting Writer in Ara Osterweil’s Contemporary Women Authors, McGill University, Montreal, Fall 2023.
  • Stonehill College, Professional Development Grant for memoir, 2023.
  • Visiting Writer in Blaise Kearsley's memoir writing workshop, September 2022.
  • Stonehill College, Katie Conboy Award. 2021.
  • Stonehill College, Professional Development Grant for memoir, 2018.
  • Stonehill College, Professional Development Grant for memoir, 2017.
  • Contemplative Practices in Higher Education, with Daniel Barbezat and Mirabai Bush, September 2015.
  • University of California Santa Cruz, discussant for the Complicated Labors Symposium, February 2014.

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