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About Amber

Amber Coverdale Sumrall was born in California and has lived in Santa Cruz County since 1972. She has edited or co-edited thirteen anthologies including, most recently, Still Heart: Reflections from The Hermitage and Storming Heaven’s Gate: Spiritual Writings by Women. 

 

Amber Coverdale Sumrall

She leads Write to the Heart workshops: journal, poetry, and editing, and writing retreats at The Hermitage in Big Sur, St. Francis Retreat in San Juan Bautista, Mission San Antonio in Jolon, and in Ireland. For twenty years she has co-produced In Celebration of the Muse, an annual literary event featuring Santa Cruz women writers.

Her first book of poems, Litany of Wings, was published in 1998 by Many Names Press. Her second collection of poems, Refuge, from Hummingird Press, will be published in November, 2007. She spends much of her time watching, listening to, and feeding the dozens of birds that frequent her creekside home in Soquel.

You can read more about Amber's poetry books Refuge and Litany of Wings, and you can see a complete list of Amber's publications here.

 

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