Amanda Rizkalla is the author of the debut novel Hungered, an Oprah's Book Club pick.
A recent Steinbeck Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow, she has been a writer-in-residence at Ragdale, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi, among others. After graduating from Stanford University, she received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was a Kemper Knapp Fellow. Her work has received a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and an Elizabeth George Foundation Fellowship through Hedgebrook.