Allison Amend

Allison Amend is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and author of the Independent Publisher Book Award-winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love as well as the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. Her new novel, A NEARLY PERFECT COPY (April 2013, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday). In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said of the book, “Amend makes her characters immediately real, depicting their complicated desires and decisions in a highly enjoyable, nearly perfect novel.” Allison lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College and for the Red Earth MFA program. Find her on Facebook or on Twitter.