Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! In hon­or of the 90th anniver­sary of Fan­ny Gold­stein’s trib­ute to Jew­ish books in the West End’s branch of the Boston Pub­lic Library, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil invit­ed 30 lead­ing authors, one for each day of the month, to answer a few ques­tions.


Alli­son Amend, a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writer’s Work­shop, is the author of the nov­els A Near­ly Per­fect Copy and Sta­tions West, which was a final­ist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and the Okla­homa Book Award. She is also the author of the Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­er’s Award-win­ning short sto­ry col­lec­tion Things That Pass for Love and the forth­com­ing nov­el, Enchant­ed Islands. She lives in New York City where she teach­es cre­ative writing.


Alli­son Amend, a grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers’ Work­shop, is the author of the Inde­pen­dent Pub­lish­er Book Award-win­ning short sto­ry col­lec­tion Things That Pass for Love and the nov­els Sta­tions West (a final­ist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jew­ish Lit­er­a­ture and the Okla­homa Book Award) and A Near­ly Per­fect Copy. She lives in New York City.