Allison Amend

Professor

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Contact

Pronouns: she
allison.amend@lehman.cuny.edu
718-960-8370
Carman Hall 391

Education

B.A., Comparative Literature, Stanford University
M.F.A., Fiction, University of Iowa

Biography

A Chicago native and a diehard Cubs fan, Allison Amend holds degrees from Stanford University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of the Independent Publisher's Award-winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love, and the novels Stations West (a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award), and A Nearly Perfect Copy. Her 2016 novel, Enchanted Islands, about spies in pre-WWII Galapagos, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award. Visit her on the web at www.allisonamend.com.

Selected Publications

Enchanted Islands. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2016).
A Nearly Perfect Copy. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday (2013).
Stations West. Louisiana State University Press’ Yellow Shoe Fiction Series (2010).
Things That Pass for Love. Other Voices Press/Dzanc Books (2008).