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Amber McCrary is Diné poet and zinester. She is Red House Clan born for Mexican people. Originally from Shonto, Arizona, and was raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned her BA in Political Science from Arizona State University, with a minor in American Indian Studies. She earned her MFA in creative writing, with an emphasis in poetry, at Mills College. McCrary is also the owner and founder of Abalone Mountain Press, a press dedicated to publishing Indigenous voices.
She is a board member for the Northern Arizona Book Festival and Words of the People organizations. She is the Arizona Humanities 2022 Rising Star of the Year and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT awardee.
Her debut poetry collection, Blue Corn Tongue: Poems in the Mouth of the Desert, is out now from University of Arizona Press.
You can find her poems, interviews, and art at Yellow Medicine Review, POETRY Magazine, Room Magazine, Poets and Writers Magazine, The Navajo Times, Santa Fe Literary Review, and Hayden’s Ferry Review.