About Amy Hassinger

Amy Hassinger is the author of the forthcoming Apocalypse in Blue: On Betrayal, Failure, Forgiveness, and Jazz, as well as three novels:Nina: Adolescence, The Priest's Madonna, and After the Dam. Her writing has been translated into six languages and has won awards from Creative Nonfiction, Publisher’s Weekly, the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), and the Illinois Arts Council. Her non-fiction has appeared in venues such as The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Catapult, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She earned her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has received fellowships from the Ucross and Ragdale Foundations, and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.