Amanda Eyre Ward was born in New York City, and graduated from Williams College and the University of Montana.

Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Story Quarterly, The Mississippi Review, The New Delta Review, Salon.com, and the Austin Chronicle.

Amanda's first novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, was optioned by Sandra Bullock and Warner Brothers. How to Be Lost is her second novel.

"Maybe, for a writer, one life isn't enough. Each story I write is a shadow life, running like a river beside my own. In my fiction, I commit murder, live in a strange house filled with items that don't belong to me, board the midnight bus to New Orleans. Sometimes it is my waking life that seems like a dream."

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