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. Her novel manuscript was longlisted for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Project Award, and her 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. She lives in San Francisco, where she’s working on a second novel and a nonfiction project.

Also!

✿ She cohosts the Light Jacket Reading Series with Erick Sáenz.

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

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

✿ She co-organized Sick Fest in 2016.

✿ She’s the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press.