Amy Berkowitz is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019). Her writing and conversations have appeared in publications including Bitch, The Believer, BOMB, and Jewish Currents. Their novel manuscript was longlisted for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Project Award, and their work has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, This Will Take Time, Small Press Traffic, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. Amy lives in San Francisco, where she cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series. They’re currently working on a second novel and a non-fiction project.

Also!

✿ Amy is a founding member of the Washtenaw County Women’s Poetry Collective & Casserole Society, which is currently working on a new collection of collaborative poems. 👀

✿ From 2014 to 2020, Amy hosted a house reading series called Amy’s Kitchen Organics.

✿ From 2017 to 2020, Amy co-coordinated the writing residency at Alley Cat Books.

✿ Amy co-organized Sick Fest in 2016.

✿ Amy is the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press.