Amaris Pollinger

Amaris Pollinger is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a “mixed-Native” of Mexican, Egyptian, Filipino, and French descent. Pollinger has worked as a pop culture writer and editor for The New Jersey Digest (aka The Digest). In 2022, she launched a digital music magazine, Block the Noise! Magazine (now Nere Magazine). As a journalist, she’s interviewed the likes of All Time Low, Radkey, nothing, nowhere, and Sihasin.

Recently, she presented at the 47th SWPACA conference in Albuquerque, NM, where she won the Graduate Student Paper Award for Identities & Cultures.

Currently, she is wrapping up her MFA at Emerson College and writing an atmospheric gothic horror novel and her first nonfiction book. Pollinger’s second love is history, and she’s a little obsessed with villified women who may or may not have lost their heads (literally and figuratively). When she isn’t buried in her basement office, she enjoys spending time with her family, drinking coffee uninterrupted, and learning her tribal language (she is not fluent, but she tries).