Amy Hempel Overview

Amy Hempel is an American short story and essay writer. She is known for her sentence-level precision and her minimal style. Hemple published Reasons to Live, her first short story collection, in 1985 and was awarded the Commonwealth Club of California... [more]

Amy Hempel is an American short story and essay writer. She is known for her sentence-level precision and her minimal style. Hemple published Reasons to Live, her first short story collection, in 1985 and was awarded the Commonwealth Club of California Silver Medal. At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom appeared in 1986, Tumble Home in 1997, and The Dog of the Marriage in 2005. The Collected Stories, published in 2006, includes all Hempel's published works. She received a Hobson Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship and has served as a judge for the National Book Award, The PEN/Revson Award, and The PEN/ Hemingway Award. She is a contributing editor at Bomb Magazine and a faculty member at Bennington College, Brooklyn College, and The New School. [show less]