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Amber DiPietra is a poet, disability rights advocate, disability peer counselor, and somatic writing teacher from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been featured in a variety of different journals and anthologies, including Make: A Chicago Literary Magazaine, Mirage Period[ical], Tarpaulin Sky, Mrs. Maybe, and TRY!. Much of her work is often done in collaboration with disability artist Denise Leto from the University of California, Berkeley.

Personal Life
DiPietra suffers from, what she describes as, "chronic pain and physical limitations" which makes it difficult for her write for extended periods of time. Despite this, she actively participates in avant-garde disability poetics and aims to have her writing embody "transparent, mobile language that moves, even when it occludes."

Selected Work

 * "Reservoir for Oculus Sinister"
 * Somatic Engagement Anthology
 * Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability
 * Waveform
 * "After 1"
 * "bunny baby fast and slow"
 * "Review of Occupational Treatment by Taylor Brady"