publications
Note: Previously published under the name Amber Officer-Narvasa.
newsletter
Groundwater: A Newsletter About the Personal and the Planetary
nonfiction
“Freedom is a Horse,” Harper’s Bazaar, June 2023
“Altar of Repose,” BOMB Magazine, February 2023
”To Be Black and Restful on the Body of the Earth,” Guernica, February 2022
”This Fashion Archivist and Shop Owner Is a Collector of Black Stories and a Lover of Literature,” Architectural Digest, December 2021
”Burial Rights,” Urban Omnibus, November 2021"Omnipresence: How Surveillance Strategies Affect the Wellbeing of Black Communities," Recompiler Mag, Winter 2020
“Alvin Armstrong: This Place Looks Different,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2020
“Rosa Parks’ Practice,” Brooklyn Yoga Club, October 2020
"Black horse culture and living in pleasure: in conversation with Wild Talk's avry jxn," Scalawag Magazine, March 2020
"Ebony G. Patterson: ...to dig between the cuts, beneath the leaves, below the soil?" The Brooklyn Rail, Dec/Jan 2020
"Unburdening the Object," Arts.Black, December 2017
"Alive Someplace Better: EJ Hill's Horizontal Poetics," Arts.Black, August 2016
"Making and Unmaking: A Freewheeling Exploration of Artistic Practice," The Studio Museum in Harlem, Summer 2018
"Hold Your Breath: Blackness, Worldmaking, and the Racial Ontology of Lungs," Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, Spring 2018
"Fake," Entropy Magazine, January 2017
"Mini-Syllabus: Memes and Blackness," Entropy Magazine, November 2016
fiction and poetry
“Mango Market,” Triquarterly Magazine, Summer 2021
”In Praise of Black Weariness,” poetry playlist for Verse, May 2021
"across-ing," re:claim magazine, March 2018
"some visual meditations on monsters and dreams," re:claim magazine, December 2017
"this is a poem birthed from the predictive," re:claim magazine, November 2017
"i can offer you only my folded palms," Quarto Magazine, Spring 2017
"ship's/hold/jive," Apogee Journal, March 2017
residencies & fellowships
School for Poetic Computation Code Societies, Winter 2020, New York, NY
Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2019-20, Trinidad & Tobago
BUFU Eyedream Residency, Summer 2018, New York, NY