As an Author

I am Amanda Nevarez, a Chicana poet and filmmaker who writes from the heart and from the wreckage. My poetry explores the complexities of love, loss, longing, and self-reclamation. It is deeply personal work, often drawn from raw and unspoken moments that we bury to survive but can never fully silence.

My debut collection The Poetic Murder of My Love is an unflinching unraveling of trust, hope, and heart. My second book Death of the Songbird gathers what remains—the echoes, the aftermath, and the melodies that refuse to die. You can read more about both on the Books page.

Through my writing, I hope to connect with anyone who has loved too hard, lost too deeply, or carried memory like a second skin. I believe in the beauty of vulnerability and in the quiet and defiant power of self-expression.

Readers often compare my work to voices like Sylvia Plath, Sandra Cisneros, Ocean Vuong, and Warsan Shire, writers who move through memory and survival with lyrical force. I also draw from the emotional restraint of Hemingway, the haunting atmosphere of Edgar Allan Poe, and the spiritual ache of Clarice Lispector. If you are drawn to poetry that lives between confession and composition, survival and song, you are in the right place.