Allison Amend

Allison Amend
Amend at the 2016 Texas Book Festival
Born	(1974-05-20) May 20, 1974 (age 43) Chicago, Illinois
Alma mater	Stanford University; University of Iowa Writer's Workshop
Genre	Novel, Short Story
Notable awards	Sami Rohr Prize finalist
Website
allisonamend.com

Allison Amend (born May 20, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Stanford University and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

In 2008, OV Books, an imprint of Dzanc Books, published her debut book, a short story collection called Things That Pass for Love. She has published two novels and a third will be published by Nan A. Talese in May 2016. Amend lives and teaches writing in New York City, New York.