Amy Hempel

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<DIV><P>A recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Artists Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Amy Hempel is the author of <I>Reasons to Live</I>, <I>At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom</I>, <I>Tumble Home</I>, and <I>The Dog of the Marriage</I> and the coeditor of <I>Unleashed</I>. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications and have been anthologized in <I>The Best American Short Stories</I> and <I>The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction</I>. Her <I>Collected Stories</I> was one of the<I> New York Times’s</I> ten best books of 2006. She won the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008 and received the PEN/Malamud award for Short Fiction in 2009.</P></DIV>