Once upon a bookshelf, in a corner of New York, a girl named Yamberlie (pronounced Jamberlee—don’t rush it, let it roll off your tongue) learned to notice the small things: the curve of a book spine, the hush of pages turning, the way sunlight caught dust in a window. She collected mugs, hoarded tote bags, and because she was afraid of her own voice, occasionally whispered to sentences like they were old friends.

​

Raised in Corona, Queens, she attended Forest Hills High School, where a focus on law and humanities opened her eyes to justice, human complexity, and the ways stories shape society. Even then, she understood that words could do more than describe the world—they could challenge it, reimagine it, and, sometimes, change it.

​

Her first apprenticeship in the alchemy of storytelling was at The New School University, where poetry and creative nonfiction taught her that writing could be both a mirror and a map—a way to see the world while imagining what could be. Each poem and essay was an experiment in empathy, identity, and culture, laying the foundation for the projects she would pursue later.

​

Later, she earned a Master’s in New Media Journalism from Full Sail University, learning to capture stories as they unfold, craft narratives across platforms, and hold fast to authenticity and responsibility—all while leaving room for wonder, curiosity, and the somewhat occasional tangent.

​

Along the way, Yamberlie helped others bring their stories to life. At Feminist Press, she nurtured voices that deserved to be heard. At Girls Write Now, she guided young writers as they discovered theirs. At the Dominican Writers Association, she helped writers shine, curated their words, and orchestrated events that made their stories impossible to ignore. She whisked Cuenticos into being, a small literary universe where short Spanglish stories unfold, transmute, and ripple through memory and identity. She’s edited children’s books and poetry collections, teaming up with brilliant writers to help their words unfold and find their place in the world.

​

Her own words have appeared in The Feminist Utopia Project and Spanglish Voces, and her forthcoming poetry collection explores memory, belonging, and the surprising ways identity takes root in everyday life. From innocence to lineage, her poems carry the unruly and the sacred.

​

Off the page, Yamberlie’s two humans—Ryan and Rylie, both artists—remind her that creation isn’t just something you do; it’s how you move through the world. They study Japanese, debate anime plotlines with fierce passion, and in their curiosity and inventiveness, she finds endless inspiration.

​
 

So yes—that’s Yamberlie: awkward, endlessly curious, seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, obsessed with pink (blush, to be precise) a collector of mugs, and a midwife for words. She believes that stories can transform both the teller and the reader, and she asks the writers she works with to meet the page with full vulnerability, because it’s in that honesty—the raw, tender, luminous human truth—that stories truly take shape.

 

Stick around, and you might just catch the alchemy at work—full of wonder, mischief, and possibility.