Amity Gaige
Visiting Assistant Professor
32 8 Park St
(413) 538-3037
office hours: Wednesdays 2:30-5:00 & by appt.
agaige@mtholyoke.edu
Education
B.A. Brown University
M.F.A The Iowa Writers' Workshop
Amity Gaige is the author of two novels, O My Darling (2005),
and The Folded World (2007).
O My Darling was described by the
Los Angeles Times as "a wistful diorama of domestic
life: the impossibility of fresh starts, the hazards of full disclosure."
The
book was named one of Kirkus Magazine's Best Books of 2005. Following
its publication, Gaige was named one of five emerging novelists
under 35 to be honored at the National Book Awards in 2006. The
Folded World, a novel about a young social worker who endangers
his marriage while working with his clients, has been widely praised
in many major news sources, including The New York Times, The
Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio.
Gaige's body of work was recently honored in The Literary Review's
50th Anniversary edition. Gaige has previously taught creative
writing at the University of Iowa, where she was a Truman Capote
Fellow, and the University of Rhode Island's Providence Campus,
where she received the Faculty of the Year Award in 2004. Also
in that year, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach creative
writing in Latvia. In teaching creative writing, she encourages
student writers to identify their literary antecedents, and to
become conscious of their own distinct world views. She is currently
teaching a course on women's anger in literature, and a course
on the crafting of the novel. She is at work on a third novel set
during the fall of the Soviet Union.
Also, visit Amity Gaige's personal website.
Selected publications
The Folded World (Other Press, May 2007). http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=504
"Villanelle." The Literary Review: 50th Anniversary 50,
4 (2007): 116-129.
O My Darling (Other Press, 2005).
http://www.otherpress.com/bookpage.php?bkID=468
"A Chance to Listen to a Nation Finding Its Voice." Los Angeles
Times 5 May 2005:
Commentary Section B13.
"The Beautiful Truth." Mississippi Review Prize Issue 32,
1 & 2
(2004): 118-137.
Teaching
Schedule 2007-2008
English 200f Introduction to the Study of Literature
English 203f Short
Story I
English 309s Crafting the Novel
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