Amanda Boyden

For 25 years now, Amanda Boyden has called New Orleans home although she grew up the eldest of three sisters in Chicago and St. Louis. She's worked a myriad of jobs, from trapeze artist-contortionist to chauffeur; for over a decade she taught graduate fiction writing at the University of New Orleans. She writes both fiction and nonfiction and is currently at work on several screenplays. Her new memoir, I Got the Dog, was released September 15, 2020.