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Trail of Sparks is a landing pad for the work, musings, and creations of Amy Jean Starling, a writer, poet, educator, anthropologist, and researcher. As a researcher and educator with over twenty years of experience, Amy has worked in diverse communities in both urban and rural contexts, especially schools. She has a bachelor's degree in Human Development from Prescott College, two master's degrees in Education from the University of Arizona (one in Deaf Education and the other in Language, Reading, and Culture), and a PhD in Anthropology from UCLA. Her research sites include Tucson, Arizona, The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Her research explores how people use language, especially interaction and storytelling, to create and share connections to places, make sense of loss, and cultivate hope for themselves and those that matter to them. Amy’s creative work dwells in similar themes of placemaking and the journeys surrounding loss, as well as human-animal connections and the hidden languages in nature. Her work includes a collection of poetry called Fieldnotes on Ghost Towns, and she is currently working on a new poetry collection and an imaginative memoir. Amy currently lives with her dog in Seattle, Washington. She can be reached at: [email protected] |
