About Amber

THE UNDERPINNING (OR UNDER-PENNING)

Amber Haines has 4 sons, a guitar-playing husband, theRunaMuck, and rare friends. She loves the funky, the narrative, and the dirty South. She finds community among the broken and wants to know your story.

Amber is curator with her husband Seth Haines of Mother Letters (published April, 2012), a contributor at (In)courage,  and BlissDom Community Leader Coordinator. Once upon a time she was Christmas Change Blog Editor, a Deeper Story contributor, and !dea Camp Orphan-Care Blog Coordinator. Her degree is in English/Creative Writing, and she has persevered through half an MFA in Poetry at The University Of Arkansas before birthing 3 boys in 3 years. There have been no signs pointing back to those workshops, so she feels perpetually unfinished, and yet the study is somehow better now.

Amber and her husband, Seth Haines from A Collective, entered the adoption process for a daughter from Ethiopia, and after much investment and prayer, they canceled the adoption to pursue ways to keep families together, at home and abroad. They’re still only getting glimpses of what this really means.

In the meantime the Haines family has added their 4th BOY to their story. Amber Haines writes about mothering many boys and keeping faith, from the perspective of a Christian woman who’s had an abortion and an affair. She loves to speak and write about the power of story: forgiveness, restoration, and redemption.

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