Amity Gaige
M.F.A., The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa, 1999
B.A., Brown University, 1995
Amity Gaige is the author of five novels, O My Darling, The Folded World, Schroder, Sea Wife, and Heartwood. Heartwood was Jenna Bush Hager’s “Read with Jenna” pick for April 2025 and has been named a Notable Book of 2025 by The New York Times. Heartwood has also been named a best book of 2025 by The Washington Post, The New York Public Library, and NPR, among others. Amity has appeared on The Today Show, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and CT Public Radio’s “Where We Live,” as well as numerous literary festivals. Heartwood was a national bestseller and #1 on The Boston Globe bestseller list. Sea Wife was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Schroder was also a New York Times Notable Book and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize in 2014. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages. In 2018, Amity was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her family. She teaches Advanced Fiction Writing and advises creative writing concentrators at Yale.
updated December 2025
