Amaris Feland Ketcham occupies her time with open space, white space, CMYK, flash nonfiction, long trails, f-stops, line breaks, and several Adobe programs running simultaneously. Her creative work has appeared in Creative Nonfiction, the Kenyon Review, Rattle, the Utne Reader, and many more literary venues across the country. Her book of poems, A Poetic Inventory of the Sandia Mountains, was published in 2019. Amaris teaches interdisciplinary liberal arts at the University of New Mexico Honors College. Her courses include creative writing, graphic design, nonfiction comics, and bookmaking. She is the faculty advisor and instructor for the award-winning, undergraduate literature and arts magazine, Scribendi. Her work on Poetic Routes (poeticroutes.com) has been adopted by the Albuquerque City Planning Department as a way to use poetry as a means of understanding neighborhoods and community character and values throughout town. As a practitioner of creative placemaking, she has taught poetry workshops in Albuquerque’s bosque and Place as Text Institutes with the National Collegiate Honors Council. Amaris has painted murals throughout Albuquerque, acted in a radio drama about the Badlands National Park, and taken students on multiweek camping trips along the Lewis and Clark Trail.

Northern New Mexico

• Bandelier National Monument: Juniper Campground
• Black Canyon Campground
• Blackjack Campground
• Canjilon Lakes Campgrounds
• Chaco Culture National Historic Park: Gallo Campground
• Clear Creek Camground
• Cochiti Lake Campgrounds
• Columbine Campground
• Coyote Creek State Park
• Elephant Rock Campground
• Fawn Lakes Campground
• Fenton Lake State Park
• Holy Ghost Campground
• Hopewell Lake Campground
• Iron Gate Campground
• Jemez Falls Campground
• Paliza Family Campground
• Panchuela Campground
• Rio Chama Campground
• Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Orilla Verde Campgrounds
• Rio Grande del Norte National Monument: Wild Rivers Campgrounds
• Rio de las Vacas Campground
• San Antonio Campground
• Santa Barbara Campground
• Sugarite Canyon State Park
• Valle Vidal Campgrounds
• Villanueva State Park

Southeastern New Mexico

• Aquirre Springs Recreation Area
• Caballo Lake State Park
• Deerhead Campground
• Fourth of July Campground
• Oak Grove Campground
• Percha Dam State Park
• Pines Campground
• Red Canyon Campground
• Sleepy Grass Campground
• Sumner Lake State Park
• Valley of Fires Recreation Area
• White Sands National Park

Southwestern New Mexico

• Apache Creek Campground
• City of Rocks State Park
• Datil Well Campground
• Dipping Vat Campground at Snow Lake
• El Malpais National Conservation Area: Joe Skeen Campground
• El Morro National Monument
• Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
• Juniper Campground
• Pinon Campground
• Pueblo Park Campground
• Water Canyon Campground