Amy Berkowitz (she/they) is the author of Gravitas (Éditions du Noroît / Total Joy, 2023) and Tender Points (Nightboat Books, 2019), which was recently translated into Russian. Other writing has appeared in publications including The Believer, SICK Magazine, and Jewish Currents. Their work has received support from the Anderson Center at Tower View, Winslow House, 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 2 (!) novels.

Also!

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

✿ I run Total Joy, an experimental publishing project focused on creative autonomy.

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

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

✿ I co-organized Sick Fest in 2016.

✿ I’m the founder of Mondo Bummer, an experimental small press that published 50+ titles from 2009 to 2024.

I made these PDFs for you

✿ David Lynch’s advice on how to use index cards to write your script (or book) as a little graphic you can tape to a pack of 3x5 cards

✿ For Passover: the 4 Children as Sesame Street characters to add to your haggadah