About Amara

Amara is a writer, educator, and consultant who loves to search the “right words.” She earned her B.A. in English from Norfolk State University. She soon ventured back to her old home state of New Jersey to receive an M.A., concentrated in rhetoric and writing, from Monmouth University. She graduated in 2015 and has been pursuing peace, purpose and passion ever since. Currently, she is an ACUE-certified online instructor of first-year writing, and writing center director at a mid-Atlantic HBCU. In fact, she is dedicated to continuing her career at historically Black colleges. 

But in terms of writing, Amara’s thing is nonfiction—personal essays, short narratives, and social reflections. She writes in order to make sense of self-imposed silences. For her, it is to better understand the human drama. To appreciate the multitudes and randomnesses of ourselves. A millennial voice in the key of revision. In all of our strife and successes, as we all try to "figure it all out” and learn from our missteps and reroutes. Finding the courage to share experiences is as much of a feat for our generation as it is to be heard, let alone understood. 

So this space, AmaraHandWrites, is dedicated to actively put herself and her ideas out there. Because that is her job. To build worlds with words. Because doing the write thing is right for her.