Amy Gottlieb’s debut novel, The Beautiful Possible (Harper Perennial), is a finalist for the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. Her fiction and poetry have been published in Other Voices, Lilith, Puerto del Sol, Zeek, Storyscape, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish Poetry, and elsewhere. She has received two BRIO Awards in Poetry, a Fellowship and Residency from the Bronx Writers Center, and an Arts Fellowship from the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. She holds an MA in comparative literature from the University of Chicago, and a BA in English from Clark University.