Amy Shearn

Amy Shearn is the author of the novels How Far Is the Ocean from Here , featured as a notable debut by Poets & Writers and the Chicago Tribune; The Mermaid of Brooklyn , a selection of Target's Emerging Authors program and a Hudson News Summer Reads pick; and Unseen City , the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Gold Medal in Literary Fiction. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, O, The Oprah Magazine , and several anthologies. A native Midwesterner, she...See more

Amy Shearn is the author of the novels How Far Is the Ocean from Here , featured as a notable debut by Poets & Writers and the Chicago Tribune; The Mermaid of Brooklyn , a selection of Target's Emerging Authors program and a Hudson News Summer Reads pick; and Unseen City , the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Gold Medal in Literary Fiction. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, O, The Oprah Magazine , and several anthologies. A native Midwesterner, she earned an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her two children. See less