Amanda Sullivan grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts, and studied sociology and urban studies at the University of Vermont before earning an MFA from Rutgers–Newark. She has worked as a grant writer and policy researcher for housing nonprofits in Providence and Jersey City, experiences that inform her interest in infrastructure and the everyday lives it shapes. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in regional magazines and online journals, and she received a 2022 New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship in prose. She lives in Jersey City with her partner and a rescue dog named Coda, and leads community writing workshops.
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