Allison Amend

Allison Amend (born May 20, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Allison Amend
Amend at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1974-05-20) May 20, 1974 (age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater	Stanford University; University of Iowa Writer's Workshop
Genre	Novel, Short Story
Notable awards	Sami Rohr Prize finalist
Website
allisonamend.com

Early life

Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois,^[1] attended Stanford University,^[2] and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop^[3] at the University of Iowa.

Career

In 2008, OV Books, an imprint of Dzanc Books, published her debut book, a short story collection called Things That Pass for Love. She has published two novels and a third^[4] was published by Nan A. Talese in May 2016. Amend teaches writing at Lehman College in New York City.^[4]

Publications

Novels

• Stations West: a novel. Louisiana State University Press (2010) ISBN 978-0807136171^[5]
• A Nearly Perfect Copy: a novel. Nan A. Talese (2013) ISBN 9780385536691^[6]
• Enchanted Islands: a novel. Nan A. Talese (24 May 2016) ISBN 978-0385539067

Short story collections

• Things That Pass for Love. Dzanc Books (2008) ISBN 9780976717744^[7]

Awards

• Sami Rohr Prize finalist ^[8]