Nico Amador

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MFA Fellow

Poet and professional troublemaker, Nico Amador's prior work has focused on teaching and writing about the skills and strategies needed to build effective movements for social change. 

Biography

Amador previously served as the Executive Director for Training for Change, a national organization dedicated to promoting skills, analysis and training in popular education methods among people using direct action and other strategies to create social change. His prior work has also included efforts to fight mass incarceration, win a living wage, establish sanctuary policies, and end a public transportation system policy that discriminated against trans and non-binary passengers in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Bettering American Poetry, Vol 3., the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Cortland Review, Hypertext Review, Poets Reading the News, Nimrod International Journal and elsewhere. His chapbook, Flower Wars, was selected as the winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize and published by Newfound Press in 2017. He is a recent grant recipient from the Vermont Arts Council and an alumni of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Writers Retreat. Amador pursued his MFA in the Bennington Writing Seminars and was selected as a Residential Teaching Fellow for Fall 2020.