Allison Amend holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford University. Her books include the IPPY award-winning short story collection, THINGS THAT PASS FOR LOVE, STATIONS WEST—a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize— and A NEARLY PERFECT COPY. Her new novel, ENCHANTED ISLANDS, about spies in pre-WWII Galapagos, will be published in May, 2016. Allison teaches at Lehman College and the Red Earth Low-Residency MFA.

Website: http://www.allisonamend.com

Twitter Username: @allisonamend

Publications

• A Nearly Perfect Copy , Nan A. Talese (April 2, 2012)
• Stations West , Louisiana State University Press (March 1, 2010)
• Things That Pass for Love , OV Books/Dzanc Books (September 1, 2008)

Awards

• Sami Rohr Prize Finalist(2011)
• Oklahoma Book Award Finalist(2011)

Employment

• Assistant Professor at Lehman College
• Faculty Member at Red Earth MFA

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature from Stanford University
• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Iowa Writers' Workshop (May 1996)

Genres of Interest

Fiction