Amber has had a rich career in writing and teaching thus far. She has had the privilege to teach at St. Petersburg College for 7 years in the Communication department teaching Introduction to Communication and Public Speaking. She also teaches at St. Leo University in the Arts and Writing Department teaching Giants of the Arts, Academic Writing, and Living the Theater. Lastly, she shares her knowledge of Public Speaking at the University of Tampa and Pasco Hernando State College. Next semester she will try her hand at two new class, Monsters in Literature and Women in Art and cannot wait. She has a dual master’s, Communication and Africana Studies, along with a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She hopes to one day earn a PhD as she is an academic at heart.

Amber is also a nonfiction, personal narrative, and creative nonfiction writer and writes for The Memoirist, Age of Empathy, Black Bear, and Bouncin’ and Behavin.’ She dreams to one day write a book of essays that is traditionally published.

Last June, she married the love of her life, in a queer wedding at the Tampa Theatre, a 100 year old movie palace in downtown Tampa. She lives happily in St. Petersburg, FL with her wife, Tessa, and their rescued beagle mix, Sangria.

She enjoys reading memoirs, eating dark chocolate, drinking all the coffee and tea she can get her hands on, and spending time with friends at her local coffee house or tea lounge.