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Amy Hassinger is the author of three novels: Nina: Adolescence (Putnam 2003), The Priest's Madonna (Putnam 2006), and After the Dam (Red Hen Press 2016).  Her writing has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Indonesian and has won awards from Creative Nonfiction, Publisher’s Weekly, and the Illinois Arts Council. She's placed her work in many publications, including The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, The Writers’ Chronicle, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She earned her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and serves as a Faculty Mentor in the University of Nebraska’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program. She teaches regularly at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Illinois and has been leading writing workshops in the Champaign-Urbana area since 2013.

Praise for After the Dam:

Taut, beautifully-written, and suspenseful, this resonant feminist drama eschews easy answers. A page-turner of the highest caliber.

                     --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Forces of nature - big water and big love - come together in this unforgettable literary page-turner. Amy Hassinger has woven a tale out of the very earth where the Ojibwe live. Her protagonist - Rachel - is a lover, mother, and activist, a woman of our time on a hero's journey toward wholeness.

                    --Patricia Henley, National Book Award Finalist, author of Hummingbird House