Amber Dermont

AMBER DERMONT received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Dave Eggers’s Best American Nonrequired Reading 2005, Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope: All-Story, and Jane Smiley’s Best New American Voices 2006. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. She currently serves as an associate professor of English and creative writing at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and is the author of the story collection Damage Control and the novel The Starboard Sea.
Damage Control
Amber Dermont
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Press
"Dermont's short story collection, which follows her debut novel (The Starboard Sea, 2012), demonstrates the author's versatility and sardonic humor…Dermont delivers strong prose...
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The Starboard Sea
Amber Dermont
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but...
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A Splendid Wife
Amber Dermont
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Press
This short story is excerpted from the upcoming collection of stories Damage Control by Amber Dermont, to be published in March 2013.
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