About

Amber Adams is a poet and therapist living in Longmont, Colorado. She is the author of Becoming Ribbons (Unicorn Press 2022). She received her MA in Literary Studies from the University of Denver,  and her MA in Counseling from Regis University. 

 

Becoming Ribbons is a elegiac account of Adams's time in the military and first marriage to Marine Corps veteran, Bradley Adams. The collection was a finalist in the X.J. Kennedy Prize, Autumn House Press Full-Length Poetry Contest, Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize, and Airlie Prize; a semifinalist in the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize; and received an honorable mention in the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Individual poems from the collection were finalists in a number of contests including the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Narrative Magazine’s Annual Contest, and Witness Magazine’s Literary Award for Poetry.

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She is currently working on her second poetry collection, Under Snow, about her brother who died in an avalanche while skiing in Hakuba, Japan. A draft of this manuscript was a semi-finalist for the Pamet River Prize. In 2024, she was a recipient of the Kyoto Writers Residency Fellowship. 

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She served in the United States Army Reserves for seven years and deployed to Kuwait under Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2005-2006. She was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant. 

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Currently, she is a therapist in private practice where she specializes in addiction, trauma, bereavement, and veterans issues. ​