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Allison Amend

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Allison Amend was born in Chicago on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She attended Stanford University and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Her work has received awards from and appeared in One Story, Black Warrior Review, StoryQuarterly, Bellevue Literary Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner and Other Voices, among other publications. Her debut short story collection, Things That Pass for Love, was published in October 2008 by OV Books. Visit her on the web at www.allisonamend.com." ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 4,091 ratings · 612 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Enchanted Islands
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A Nearly Perfect Copy
3.35 avg rating — 552 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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Things That Pass for Love
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Stations West
3.81 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Hispanic-American Writers
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“Friendship between women is complicated. We can be kind to the world, but where other women are concerned, we often show our basest selves. We”
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