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Amanda Rizkalla

Biography

Amanda Rizkalla

Amanda Rizkalla is the author of the debut novel HUNGERED, an Oprah's Book Club pick. A recent Steinbeck Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow, she has been a writer-in-residence at Ragdale, Hedgebrook and Djerassi, among others. After graduating from Stanford University, she received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Kemper Knapp Fellow. Her work has received a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and an Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship through Hedgebrook.

Amanda Rizkalla

Books by Amanda Rizkalla

by Amanda Rizkalla - Fiction

For readers of THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET and WE THE ANIMALS, this striking debut brings to life an unforgettable young narrator and the complicated, loving, cruel and generous figures that make up her universe.