Amber RidenourWalker

Instructor

(719) 502-3200 | Amber.RidenourWalker@PikesPeak.edu

Box C17, Centennial | PCE-F200

Background

Amber Ridenour Walker
MFA Creative Writing/Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University

Professional Experience

Mentor for Poetry Heals; Poetry Reader for Split Lip Magazine; Instructor at PPSC and Siena Heights University

Honors & Awards

2-week residency at the Chateau Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardennes, France

Microgrant from Pike’s Peak Arts Council

Author of Surfacing: Poems (Free Lines Press) and I Thought This Would Be Cooler (Bottlecap Press)

Her poems, short stories, and essays have appeared in such places as 20 Minutes in Portland: A Special Edition of The Portland Review, 580 Split, Tiny Spoon, LEON Literary Review, Bombay Gin, Pile Press, Jaden Magazine, and the Sonic Salon and Where I'm From podcasts.

Classes Taught

Composition I and II, Creative Writing