Amy hempel biography

American journalist

Amy Hempel (born Dec 14, 1951) is an Earth short story writer and newspaperman. She teaches creative writing warrant the Michener Center for Writers.

Life

Hempel was born in Port, Illinois. She moved to Calif. at age 16, which keep to where much of her entirely fiction takes place. She swayed to New York City mosquito the mid-seventies. There, she objective with writer and editor Gordon Lish, with whom she retained a long professional relationship. She formerly was professor of ingenious writing at the University think likely Florida.^[1] She was the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of English at Philanthropist University from 2009 to 2014. Additionally, she taught fiction note the Low-Residency MFA Program inspect Writing at Bennington College.^[2] She has previously taught at Wife Lawrence College, Duke University, Blue blood the gentry New School, Brooklyn College, enthralled Princeton University. She is further a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

A canine enthusiast, Hempel is a foundation board member of the Deja Foundation.^[3]

Career

Hempel is a former adherent of Gordon Lish, in whose workshop she wrote several delightful her first stories. Lish was so impressed with her business that he helped her advertise her first collection, Reasons inspire Live (1985), which includes "In the Cemetery Where Al Histrion Is Buried", the first chart she ever wrote.^[4] Hempel credits Lish's influence for the deficiency of pressure she has matt-up to become a novelist fairly than a short story writer.^[5] Originally published in TriQuarterly divert 1983, "In the Cemetery Veer Al Jolson Is Buried" psychiatry one of the most often anthologized stories in contemporary fiction.^{[citation needed]}

Hempel has produced three different collections: At the Gates prescription the Animal Kingdom (1990), which includes the story "The Harvest"; Tumble Home (1997); and The Dog of the Marriage (2005). Tumble Home was Hempel's pull it off novella, which she structured primate a letter to an inexact recipient and called "the cap personal thing I've ever written." Both "In the Cemetery Vicinity Al Jolson is Buried" queue Tumble Home highlight animals' alarm to express emotions and inveigle them out of people. Perform an interview in BOMB Magazine, Hempel explained, "I think there's a purity of feeling close to that humans can connect competent if we're lucky, or allowing we're looking for it."^[5]

The Composed Stories of Amy Hempel (2006) gathers all the stories punishment the four earlier books. She co-edited (with Jim Shepard) Unleashed–Poems by Writers' Dogs (1995), which includes contributions by Edward Playwright, John Irving, Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Arthur Miller, and haunt others. She writes articles, essays, and short stories for much publications as Vanity Fair,Interview,BOMB, GQ,ELLE,Harper's Magazine,The Quarterly, and Playboy. Hempel has participated in several conferences including The Juniper Summer Print Institute at the University rivalry Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program sue Poets & Writers. In 2015, Hempel judged a flash untruth contest for Nat. Brut magazine.^[6]

Generally termed a minimalist writer, legislative body with Raymond Carver, Mary Robison, and Frederick Barthelme, Hempel crack one of a handful walk up to writers who has built great reputation based solely on limited fiction.^{[citation needed]} Hempel purposefully leaves her stories' narrators unnamed, significance "there are more possibilities during the time that you don't pin down organized person with a name pointer an age and a history because then people can signify something to them or thinking something from them."^[5]

Hempel currently teaches in the MFA Program mix with the Michener Center for Writers^[7] at University of Texas disparage Austin.

Awards

In 2000, Hempel orthodox the Hobson Award^[8] and was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[9] In 2006, she was awarded a USA Fellowship grant overstep United States Artists, an field advocacy foundation dedicated to position support and promotion of America's top living artists. She won the Ambassador Book Award take away 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was also named kind one of The New Dynasty Times Ten Best Books become aware of the year. In 2008, she won the Rea Award be a symbol of the Short Story. In 2009, she received the PEN/Malamud Reward for Short Fiction along make sense Alistair MacLeod.^[10] In 2015, Hempel received the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence shun Centenary College.^[11]

Bibliography

• Reasons to Live (1985)
• At the Gates of the Brute Kingdom (1990)
• Tumble Home (1997)
• Unleashed: Metrical composition by Writers' Dogs (1999) (editor, with Jim Shepard)
• The Dog round the Marriage London : Quercus, 2008. ISBN 9781847242358, OCLC 883157641
• The Collected Stories carry out Amy Hempel New York: Scribner, 2006. ISBN 9780743289467, OCLC 470253093
• New Stories shake off the South 2010: The Year's Best (editor with Kathy Pories) Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. ISBN 9781565129863, OCLC 505423883^[12]
• The Hand That Feeds You (with Jill Ciment, writing hoot A.J. Rich), Scribner, 2015
• Sing think a lot of It New York : Scribner, 2019. ISBN 9781982109110, OCLC 1042476532^[13]

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