Amber Rose Crowtree

Amber Rose Crowtree is an award-winning poet whose poems have appeared widely from North America and abroad. She is the author and cover-artist of two chapbooks: Harboring the Imperfect (Dancing Girl Press, 2021) and The Inviolable Hours (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Her poem, “Lamentation of The Butterfly-Envelopes” made the finalist list for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, 2022 and was published in North American Review, spring 2022 issue. Her manuscript chapbook, Somewhere, in these Reincarnate Decibels of Light, was a finalist for the Bluelight Press Prize, 2025. Amber earned her Master of Fine Arts in Writing poetry through Vermont College of Fine Arts, winter of 2017.

 

Ms. Crowtree has been an Artist/Poet-in-Residence through the Shoals Marine Laboratory located on Appledore Island, 2023 and a Writer-in-Residence through the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site, 2024. She has taught poetry workshops at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Site, 2017 and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park for National Write-Out day and Sculptural Visions, 2023 and at The Fells Historic Site through Adventures in Learning, Visual Verse via Colby Sawer, 2018. She has been an assistant editor for The Poets’ Touchtone (Touchtone), a reader for Hunger Mountain Magazine, and a poetry critic for Nostalgia Press, 2026. She is a longtime poet of the John Hay Poetry Society of Newbury, NH, member of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, The Arbor Day Foundation, and supports donation to Birdsacre the Stanwood Wildlife Sanctuary of Ellsworth, Maine, historic home of pioneer Ornithologist, Cordelia J. Stanwood.

 

Amber mainly grew up on the coast of Downeast, Maine, working seasonal labor jobs such as raking blueberries, worm-digging, vegetable farming, and hotel/inn housekeeping. She has worked as a seasonal maintenance worker beginning in 2007 (maintaining buildings, grounds, trails, and gardens) for several National Parks (NH, VT, ME) through 2024. She also worked a season with the Student Conservation Association, Vermont, as Facilities Maintenance Intern. She lives in rural New Hampshire with her man, their orange tabby cat, and many houseplants.