Amber Flame is a writer, composer and performer, whose work has garnered artistic merit residencies with Hedgebrook, The Watering Hole, Vermont Studio Center, and Yefe Nof. Flame served as the 2017-2019 poetry Writer-in-Residence at Hugo House in Seattle. Her first collection, Ordinary Cruelty, was published in 2017 by Write Bloody Press with her second collection forthcoming from Red Hen Press.