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Amy Reed
Bay Area writers Kelly Lydick, MG Roberts and Amy Reed read a few selections from their August 2008 reading, Silhouettes at Mama Buzz Cafe in Oakland, CA. (Running Time: 24:50)
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Amy Reed reads a passage from her debut novel, Beautiful, about a young girl who trades her good-girl existence for a swift downward spiral tinged with drugs and abuse. (Running Time: 12:28)
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Amy Reed grew up around Seattle and has called the San Francisco Bay Area home since 2000, where she received her MFA in Writing & Consciousness from New College of California. Her short work has been published in Kitchen Sink, Contrary, and Fiction magazines. Her story "How You Remember Her" was named a 2007 Million Writers Notable Story, 2008 Dzanc Books Notable Story, and was selected as one of Contrary Magazine's Greatest Stories, 2003-2008. Beautiful is her first novel.
