Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here, plus the forthcoming novels Dear Edna Sloane (Red Hen Press, 2024) and Animal Instinct (Putnam, 2025). She has worked as an editor at Medium, JSTOR, Conde Nast, and elsewhere, and teaches creative writing at the Yale Writers’ Workshop, the Sackett Street Writers Workshop, and the experimental cooperative Writing Co-Lab, which she helped found. Amy’s writing has recently appeared in No Tokens, Pigeon Pages, Memoirland, Oprah Daily, and the New York Times Modern Love column, among other publications. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children. You can find her at amyshearnwrites.com or @amyshearn.