Martha Amore teaches writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has published stories in a number of journals and magazines, and in 2013, her novella "Weathered In" was published in the anthology Weathered Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas. She won a 2015 Rasmuson Individual Artist Award to complete her collection of short stories, In the Quiet Season, which was published by University of Alaska Press in 2018. Martha Amore and coeditor Lucian Childs are contributing editors of the University of Alaska Press anthology Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, which was a finalist for a LAMBDA Literary Award. She is currently at work on a new book of Alaska stories.

Website: marthaamore.com

Twitter Username: @marthaamore5

Publications

• In the Quiet Season , University of Alaska Press (February 15, 2018)
• Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry , University of Alaska Press (March 15, 2016)
• Weathered Edge , VP&D House (March 15, 2013)

Awards

• Rasumuson Individual Artist Award $7500(2015)
• Anchorage Daily News Writing Contest Grand Prize(2005)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at University of Alaska Anchorage (August 2009 - )
• Visiting Instructor at Alaska Pacific University (August 2012 - )
• Writer at self-employed (August 2003 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from University of Michigan (May 1992)
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from University of Alaska Anchorage (May 2009)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction