Tim Amsden

Tim Amsden’s poetry can be found in national and international publications, as well as several anthologies. His first memoir, Love Letter to Ramah: Living Beside New Mexico’s Trail of the Ancients (University of New Mexico Press, September 2024), was inspired by two decades of living in the Ramah Valley. The memoir has been called a book of “gentle wisdom and quiet inspiration” that “reveals a deep sense of the land and lore of that patch of paradise presently known as New Mexico.”

His full-length poetry book, Vanishing Point, was published in 2015. He also edited and contributed to The Bear is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muskogee Creek Medicine Man (Synergetic Press, 2021).

Tim was born in Wichita, Kansas, earned a law degree from the University of Iowa, and worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Kansas City for 25 years. He now lives with his wife, Lucia, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.