Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She is well known
for her works in fiction and non-fiction. In 1985, she published her first story collection, Reason to
Live, which won the Commonwealth Club of California Silver
Medal. Amy is also the author of At the Gates of the Animal
Kingdom and Tumble Home, and is the coeditor of the
anthology, Unleashed: Poems by Writer's Dogs. Amy's stories have appeared in Vanity Fair, Harper's, The
Quarterly, The Yale Review and several anthologies,
including The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. She also
works as a contributing editor to Bomb Magazine. Amy has won several prestigious literary awards for her
work, including the Hobson Award and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Over the years, she has served as a judge for
the National Book Award, The PEN/Revson Award, The PEN/
Hemingway Award, and the Mary McCarthy Prize among others. Amy has also taught at a number of colleges and universities
across the country, including New York University, Saint
Mary's College, and the University of Missouri. She is
currently a faculty member in the graduate writing programs
of Bennington College in Vermont and The New School
University in New York City.
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Series
Books:Sing to It, April 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, May 2006
Hardcover
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