Amy Monticello

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Amy Monticello is the author of Close Quarters, a chapbook memoir about unconventional divorce (Sweet Publications), and the essay collection How to Euthanize a Horse, which won the 2016 Arcadia Press Chapbook Prize in Nonfiction. She was also awarded the 2013 S.I. Newhouse School Prize in nonfiction from Stone Canoe. Her work has been published in Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Iron Horse Literary Review, Hotel Amerika, SalonThe RumpusAssay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and elsewhere, anthologized in Going Om: Real-Life Stories On and Off the Yoga Mat, and listed as notable in Best American Essays. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Suffolk University in Boston, MA. 

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Best American Essays 2013*

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