Amber Baird (she/they) is a writer who grew up amongst the opiate crisis in Dayton, Ohio. She now lives in Portland, Oregon, where she studied under authors Chelsea Cain and Chuck Palahniuk. She has a wife and two cats (Kiley Anne and Tiny Cat the Diplomat M.D.)
Find them on the apps @amberbairdpdx or just send an email.
Their work has been featured in literary magazines:
Troublemaker Firestarter
Maudlin House
PULP LIT MAG
Sensitive Skin Magazine
Grim and Gilded
Hawai’i Pacific Review
Digging Through the Fat
She is currently querying a novel about long-lost siblings and murder.
Some things they like:
TV: Yellowjackets, The Bear, Severance, White Lotus, Abbot Elementary, Gordon Ramsay reality cooking shows. Buffy but especially Angel, Veronica Mars, Bates Motel, The Haunting of Hill House, Superstore, The Good Place, Beef, The Queen’s Gambit, Sharp Objects, and Dexter are some old favorites.
Movies: The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, All of Us Strangers, Infinity Pool, Bottoms, Late Night with the Devil, The Menu, Barbarian, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Fresh, Kajillionaire, Ready or Not, Parasite, The Art of Self Defense, Greener Grass, A Simple Favor, Under the Silver Lake, Sorry to Bother You, mother!, Brigsby Bear, Ingrid Goes West, Raw, As Above So Below, Frank, Melancholia, Black Swan, Moon, Wristcutters: A Love Story, V for Vendetta, Saw, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, I ❤ Huckabees, Mean Girls, Ghost World, Donnie Darko, Memento, Bring it On, Magnolia, But I’m a Cheerleader, Dogma, Cruel Intentions, Go, Jawbreaker, and The Craft. Also anything by Ari Aster, Yorgos Lanthimos, Charlie Kaufman, or Robert Eggers.
Books: Animal by Lisa Taddeo, The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Any Man by Amber Tamblyn, Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage, Bunny by Mona Awad, Death Valley by Melissa Broder, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen, Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite, Florida by Lauren Groff, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel, Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman, My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones, Night Film by Marisha Pessl, Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth, Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier, The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty, Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash, Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus, Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Authors: Kristen Arnett, Andrea Bartz, William S. Burroughs, Eliza Clark, Rachel Harrison, Grady Hendrix, Shirley Jackson, Gillian Flynn, Sarah Gailey, Stephen King, Rebecca Makkai, Ottessa Moshfegh, Sayaka Murata, Elle Nash, Alissa Nutting, Heather O’Neill, Iain Reid, Sally Rooney, Alison Rumfitt, Robin Sloan, Amber Sparks, Chuck Tingle, Catriona Ward, Ashley Winstead
Music: Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Charly Bliss, The Dandy Warhols, Father John Misty, The Flaming Lips, Garbage, Halsey, Jenny Lewis, Lana Del Rey, Man Man, Marina, Miley Cyrus, Poe, Regina Spektor, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, Sylvan Esso, Tacocat, Transviolet, Tove Lo, Wolf Parade, Yelle
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