Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel

born December 14, 1951
gender female
place of birth Chicago, Illinois, The United States
genre Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction
influences [a:Gordon Lish|232097|Gordon Lish|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267719924p2/232097.jpg], [a:Grace Paley|41028|Grace Paley|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206733047p2/41028.jpg], [a:Barry Hannah|53490|Barry Hannah|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1252194979p2/53490.jpg]

about this author

Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College. Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008, and the Pen/Malamud Award for short fiction in 2009.

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