Articles
Presented at the 2024 ASME Conference: Chapman, L., Velez, A., English, A., Gavilanes, M., Huynh, H., Welsh, E., Winter, A. Recycling Automotive Shredder Residue: A Techno-Economic Analysis
Presented at the 2024 ASME Conference: Goldbach, C., Velez, A., Kleiner, T., Winter, A. Design of a Tractor for Small Farms in Resource Constrained Communities
Lalk, E., Velez, A., Ono, S. Methane clumped isotopologue variabiloty from ebullition in a mid-latitude lake. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00282
Presented at the 2022 Northeast Geobiology Symposium: Velez, A., Lalk, E., and Ono, S. Temporal and spatial variability in Δ13CH3D values and methane flux from ebullition in a mid-latitude lake
and at the 2023 AGU Fall Meeting: Lalk, E., Velez, A., Ono, S. Methane clumped isotopologue variability from ebullition in a mid-latitude lake.
Nonfiction
“Leaning into the chaos,” MIT Technology Review, Oct 2024.
Featured in MIT News: “Forging Her Own Path,” by Danna Lorch, Mar 2024.
“Side Streets and Stadiums,” MISTI Blogs, Oct 2022.
“Denmark to the Point,” MISTI Blogs, Aug 2022.
“Weld your own bike at MIT D-Lab!” MIT D-Lab News & Blog, Jul 2022.
“First-year fall, off-campus,” MIT Technology Review, Dec 2020.
Short Fiction
“The Poisoner,” The Colored Lens, Issue #54, Winter 2025, Jan 2025.
“Cherry & Chocolate,” Drunk Monkeys Magazine, Vol 5, No. 10, Oct 2020.
“Knots,” Broken Pencil Magazine, online exclusive, Aug 2020.
“Eresh Ashore,” Theakers Quarterly Fiction, Issue 66, Apr 2020. Available online. Re-printed in Silver Blade Magazine, Issue 47, Sept 2020.
“Could Be Anywhere,” Carnegiea Literary Magazine, Vol 2, Aug 2019.
Awards
Donald Brookfield Fellowship 2024-2025.
Burchard Scholars Award 2022-2023.
“The Architect and the Poisoner,” First Prize in Boit Manuscript Prize (Fiction), May 2023.
“Tell Me How it Hurts,” First Prize in Robert A. Boit Prize (Essay), May 2023.
“All the World’s Sunlight,” Second Prize in Enterprise Poets Prize for Imagining a Future, May 2023.
“The Poisoner,” Second Prize in King Prize for Science Fiction Writing, May 2023.
“In summer the sun sets at midnight,” Third Prize in Boit Manuscript Prize (Poetry), May 2023.
“At the Crossroads,” First Prize in Ilona Karmel Contest: King Prize for Science Fiction Writing, May 2022.
“Milestones,” Fourth Prize in Ilona Karmel Contest: Robert A. Boit Prize (Essay), May 2022.
“A Tyrant in Sunamey,” Silver Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future, 4th Quarter, Nov 2020.
“In the Midst of a Storm,” Silver Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future, 2nd Quarter, Jun 2020.
“Brake,” 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Young Authors Contest winner, in winners’ anthology, Mar 2019.
misc
MITERS Journal 2022, editor, May 2022.
“Milestones,” written & performed at MIT Monologues, Feb 2022.
“Tell Me How it Hurts,” written & performed at MIT Monologues, Feb 2023.
Amber Velez 