Amber Showalter

Born to be a rock star but also born completely tone-deaf, Amber Showalter learned early on to use the written word as a weapon, as an epitaph, as her own spoken siren song. A self-proclaimed type A personality and grown-up punk, Amber currently makes a living as a pandemic nurse fighting COVID-19, in addition to her crime-fighting side gig as a SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner). She has been writing poetry since she was fifteen. This is her third collection. Her first book, The Carrion of...See more

Born to be a rock star but also born completely tone-deaf, Amber Showalter learned early on to use the written word as a weapon, as an epitaph, as her own spoken siren song. A self-proclaimed type A personality and grown-up punk, Amber currently makes a living as a pandemic nurse fighting COVID-19, in addition to her crime-fighting side gig as a SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner). She has been writing poetry since she was fifteen. This is her third collection. Her first book, The Carrion of Songs, is a mixture of her writing styles over the course of two decades and is divided into two parts in a cause-and-effect style. Her second book, Esteem Punk, is a collection of her earliest poems that take the reader on a dark journey. See less