Allison Amend | |
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| Born | May 20, 1974 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University; University of Iowa Writer's Workshop |
| Genre | Novel, Short Story |
| Notable awards | Sami Rohr Prize finalist |
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Allison Amend (born May 20, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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.
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]
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