Amanda K. Davidson is a writer, performance maker, teacher, and editor based in Brooklyn. Her chapbook Arcanagrams: A Reckoning is forthcoming on Little Red Leaves' textile series, and her fiction chapbook Apprenticeship (New Herring Press), was a finalist for the University of Kentucky’s 2013 Calvino Prize. She has been a writer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Millay Colony. Her fiction appears in Ping Pong, The Encyclopedia Project, 4’33”, and elsewhere, and her reviews and author interviews appear in the Believer, eMusic.com, and the City Lights Bookstore blog. She teaches writing at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and is currently at work on a performance novel about the mystic Swedenborg.