About
Nico Amador is a writer, educator, and community organizer from San Diego, currently living in rural Vermont. His prior work has included efforts to fight mass incarceration, win a living wage and end a public transportation system policy that discriminated against trans and non-binary public transit users in Philadelphia. As a trainer and facilitator, he led hundreds of workshops to promote skills and analysis among people using grassroots strategies to create social change in the U.S. and abroad.
Amador’s writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and was published by Newfound Press. He holds an MFA from Bennington College and is a recent recipient of the Blue Mesa Review Poetry Prize, the Outpost Vermont Fellowship, and the Fine Arts Work Center Emerging Writer’s Fellowship in Provincetown.
Photo by Luis Gaspar