Amanda Stern's fiction, non-fiction and poetry has appeared, among other places, in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Swink, Venus Magazine, The Believer, and St. Ann's Review.
The Long Haul, her debut novel from Soft Skull Press, can be found in
stores nationwide. She was She is
the curator and host of the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading
Series. In 2006 she hosted the National Book Awards premiere ceremony,
"5 Under 35."
For several years she worked in independent film assisting Terry Gilliam, Hal Hartley, Ang Lee, Ted Hope and James Schamus.
For two years she made her money as a professional comic co-hosting the Broadway Video/MSN celebrity talk show venture, "This is Not a Test" at Catch A Rising Star with Marc Maron. Their guests included: George Plimpton, Phil Hartman, Conan O' Brien, Jon Stewart and Janeane Garofalo among many others. She continued to work for Broadway Video as an on-air host for the unfortunately named Burly Bear Network, a closed circuit college network owned, at that time, by Lorne Michaels.
In 2003 Amanda was awarded the first fiction fellowship at The Begat Compagnie in Provence, France. She was the 2003 John and Joan Jakobson fiction fellow at the Wesleyan Writers' Conference and has since held several residencies at The MacDowell Colony (once as the Philip Morris Company Fellow) and at Yaddo.
She is a member of PEN American.
Born and raised in Greenwich Village, she
currently lives in Brooklyn and is at work on her next novel.
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