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Amber McCrary is a Diné poet, zinester, feminist and artist. She is Red House born for Mexican people. Originally from Shonto, Arizona and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She earned her BA from Arizona State University in Political Science with a minor in American Indian Studies. She received her MFA in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry at Mills College. She is the creator of DANG! Zine (Daydreaming, Awkward, Native, Girl) Vol. 1 and Vol.2 and Vol. 3, Angsty Asdzáá: Tales of an angry Indigenous woman zine and The Asdzáá Beat. McCrary is the owner and founder of Abalone Mountain Press, a press dedicated to publishing Indigenous voices. She is a board member of the Northern Arizona Book Festival, the AZ Humanities 2022 Rising Star of the year and a Native Arts and Cultures Foundation LIFT awardee.
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.