Amy Hempel was born on December 14,1951 and is an American short story writer and journalist.
16 Facts About Amy Hempel
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Amy Hempel teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers.
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Amy Hempel moved to California at age 16, which is where much of her early fiction takes place.
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Amy Hempel moved to New York City in the mid-seventies.
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Amy Hempel formerly was professor of creative writing at the University of Florida.
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Amy Hempel was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Harvard University from 2009 to 2014.
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Amy Hempel has previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Duke University, The New School, Brooklyn College, and Princeton University.
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Amy Hempel is a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
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Amy Hempel is a former student of Gordon Lish, in whose workshop she wrote several of her first stories.
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Amy Hempel has produced three other collections: At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, which includes the story "The Harvest"; Tumble Home ; and The Dog of the Marriage.
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Amy Hempel writes articles, essays, and short stories for such publications as Vanity Fair, Interview, BOMB, GQ, ELLE, Harper's Magazine, The Quarterly, and Playboy.
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In 2015, Amy Hempel judged a flash fiction contest for Nat.
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Amy Hempel currently teaches in the MFA Program at the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin.
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In 2000, Amy Hempel received the Hobson Award and was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Amy Hempel won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was named as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the year.
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In 2015, Amy Hempel received the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College.