Amy Bonnaffons' work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Kenyon Review, among other places, and has been read on This American Life. She is a founding editor of 7x7.la, an online journal that publishes collaborations between writers and visual artists.
She holds an MFA from NYU and currently lives in Athens, GA, where she is pursuing a PhD at the University of Georgia.
"Amy Bonnaffons has upgraded magic realism for the modern age.
Reminiscent of Kelly Link, Karen Russell, and Chris Adrian, these
stories about friendships, marriages, sexuality, and spirituality,
beg to be read with a pen for the purpose of constant
underlining-for, seen through Bonnaffons' slyly humorous and sharp
sensibility, even the most bizarre, heartbreaking, and mundane
moments appear precious, interesting, and worth living."--Kseniya
Melnik, author of Snow in May
"Amy Bonnaffons is the real deal. She's a woman of impossible
juxtapositions. Funny and wise, thrilling and disciplined, strange
and masterful. Do yourself a favor and read this: you'll be
surprised where you find yourself, but you'll never feel
lost."--Darin Strauss, National Book Critics CircleAward-winning
author of Chang and Engand Half a Life
"Amy Bonnaffons surprises her readers with the truth. Whether her
characters are toasting marshmallows over a flaming plastic Jesus,
finding freedom in the form of a horse, or lusting after the Angel
of Death, their particular lonelinesses and their struggles with
their uncooperative selves are always moving and always grant us
profound insight into what it is to be human in the twenty-first
century. There are many stories in this brilliantly inventive
collection that I will never forget, and that I will read again and
again over the course of my life."--Stephen O'Connor, author of
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
"Amy Bonnaffons' work is a thing of beauty. No language is adequate
to distill her tenable, palpable, fleshy characterizations, her
absorbing settings, her startling concepts, her crystalline
language, her subtle but inexorable action that stops your own
world and funnels you down into a world of her creation."--Reginald
McKnight, author of White Boys
"At once goofy, poignant, and edged with the fantastic, the stories
in Bonnaffons's debut collection initially surprise, then turn into
one long, delicious rush."--Library Journal, Starred Review
"Bright and lively... It's in the nonmagical everyday world that
Bonnaffons reveals some magic of her own."--New York Times
"Channeling the fabulism of Karen Russell, these offbeat tales are
both funny and profound."--O, The Oprah Magazine
"God, these stories. I wanted to stop people on the street. I know
contemporary writers who can lacerate, and I know others who are
funny, and I even know some who can pull off pathos. But I don't
know any who can do all three at once -- with mastery, mischief,
and meaning -- like Amy Bonnaffons. She gives you a key to that
secret room where, for a dear second, everything stops moving so
quickly and you get a glimpse of the truth."--Boris Fishman, author
of Don't Let Me Baby Do Rodeo
"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes
about transformation, each story further complicating the world as
we know it. With a style that blends humor and sincerity in such
strange, perfect ratios, Bonnaffons reveals the mysteries inside of
us, just waiting to make themselves known. The Wrong Heaven, so
wondrous, will alter you in all the necessary ways."--Kevin Wilson,
author of The Family Fang and Perfect Little World
"In her first collection, Bonnaffons dazzles and cuts with 10
hilarious and cathartic short stories. Though the pieces vary in
tone and format, they uniformly focus on a complex female
protagonist. The author employs a modern magical realism, absurd,
nihilistic, and playful all at once. Resonant of Alissa Nutting's
novels and George Saunders' Pastoralia (2000), Bonnaffons' first
collection presents a powerful and fresh new voice."--Booklist
"In the stories of her imaginative and unsettling debut, Bonnaffons
creates worlds much like ours, except for the parts that are
askew...when Bonnaffons hits the sweet spot between the emotional
and physical realities of this world and the odd, askew thing that
lets readers see them, the collection is at its best. This is an
outstanding, exciting debut."--Publishers Weekly, Starred
Review
"Incredibly fun to read but also full of these frank and wise
observations that stuck in my head long after."-- Aimee Bender, New
York Times bestsellingauthor of The Particular Sadness of
LemonCake
"Like the best storytelling, The Wrong Heaven feels like a gift -
warm, intimate, and very, very funny. The characters are messy and
vibrant and gloriously flawed, and their transformations are
absolutely enthralling. This energizing collection will stay with
me - happily so - for a long time. Read it."--Kayla Rae Whitaker,
author of The Animators
"These stories are eerie, enthralling, and hilarious. Women grow
hooves, carve dolls who talk, have sex (or almost) with angels.
Bonnaffons is a masterful chronicler of female desire and its
discontents."--Leni Zumas, author ofRed Clocks
"These stories perfectly balance humor, strangeness, and keen
insights into contemporary life. And by 'balance' I mean they are
unbalanced in just the right way, always surprising, inventive, and
deeply moving."--Gabrielle LucilleFuentes, author of The Sleeping
World
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