Amanda Larson is a graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California, and of New York University's MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has taught writing and literature at New York University, the City University of New York, Cedar Crest College, Fordham University, and the Dalton School. Her poetry book, Gut, was awarded the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is writing a novel and a screenplay.
