Amy Waldman

Amy Waldman’s first novel, The Submission, was a national bestseller, a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, and the #1 Book of the Year for Entertainment Weekly and Esquire. She has received fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin, Ledig House for International Writers, the MacDowell Colony, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Waldman was previously national correspondent for The Atlantic and a reporter for the The New York Times, where, as a bureau chief for South Asia, she covered Afghanistan. She lives in Brooklyn.