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Amy Reed was born and raised in and around Seattle, where she attended a total of eight schools by the time she was eighteen. Constant moving taught her to be restless and being an only child made her imagination do funny things. After a brief stint at Reed College (no relation), she moved to San Francisco and spent the next several years serving coffee and getting into trouble. She eventually graduated from film school, promptly decided she wanted nothing to do with filmmaking, returned to her original and impractical love of writing, and earned her MFA from New College of California. Her short work has been published in journals such as Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction. Amy currently lives in Oakland with her husband and two cats, and...more


I have so many things to be excited about right now!

CRAZY comes out SO SOON! The June 12 release date is less than a month away, and I can’t wait for you to meet Connor and Isabel. I love these characters so much, and I hope you will too.


EVENTS

If you live in the SF Bay Area, don’t forget about my Release Day Event at Diesel Books in Oakland (Tuesday, June 12 at 7:00 pm; 5433 College Avenue). I...

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Published on May 20, 2012 13:30 • 13 views
Average rating: 3.86 · 2,480 ratings · 605 reviews · 4 distinct works
Beautiful
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions
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Clean
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 775 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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Crazy
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 42 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions
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October 2009, Amy Reed
" What Readers want to know... SS: How would you describe perfect happiness? AR: A sunny day in a grassy field surrounded by forest. A warm, crystal-clear lake with a sandy beach. Birds chirping. Bambi. My husband and closest friends playing guitars an..." ...More

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How You Remember Her (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated Jul 03, 2009 11:07am
Description: This short story was originally published in Contrary Magazine (www.contrarymagazine.com). It was listed as a Notable Story in the Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008 anthology and the 2007 StorySouth Million Writers Awards.
BEAUTIFUL (Literature & Fiction)
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Cat’s Cradle
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Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Children and the Wolves by Adam Rapp
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On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road
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Dream Boy by Jim Grimsley
Dream Boy
by Jim Grimsley
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
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The End of Free Love by Susan Steinberg
The End of Free Love
by Susan Steinberg
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Holes by Louis Sachar
Holes (Holes, #1)
by Louis Sachar
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
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The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
The Disenchantments
by Nina LaCour (Goodreads Author)
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“Maybe this is all love is and all it will ever be-- boys fucking girls and pretending it's love, girls getting fucked and pretending they like it, saying "I love you, too," and wanting to throw up.”
Amy Reed, Beautiful

“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?”
Amy Reed, Clean

“If you are still, no one can hurt you. If you play dead, there is nothing to kill.”
Amy Reed, Beautiful

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L'Engle

“BEAUTIFUL is stark, disquieting and, quite simply, riveting. Amy Reed is an author to keep on your radar.”
Ellen Hopkins

“A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read.”
R.A. Nelson, Teach Me

“In crisp, clean prose Amy Reed places the reader right into the heart and mind and life of a girl who makes the choice to be one of the beautiful ones. Reed gives a disturbing and concise snapshot of what it can be like today for teens struggling with self-identity and peer acceptance when in a heartbeat they follow the 'wrong road.”
M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow

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Jaree Francis Hello, how're you doing, Ms Amy? I hope all's well with you + thanks for the friend-quest

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