
Amy Hempel
Author · 11 books
Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College. Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008, and the Pen/Malamud Award for short fiction in 2009.
Books

The Most Girl Part of You
2023

Reasons to Live
1985

The Dog of the Marriage
Stories
2005

Tumble Home
A Novella and Short Stories
1997

The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction
Fifty North American Stories Since 1970
1999

Sing to It
2019

El gran libro de los perros
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura canina universal
2018

The Collected Stories
2006

Fakes
An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts
2012

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom
1990

Unleashed
Poems by Writers' Dogs
1995