Amity Gaige
Biography
Amity Gaige
HEARTWOOD is Amity Gaige’s fifth novel. It was selected by Jenna Bush Hager as a Read with Jenna pick for April 2025 and became an instant national bestseller. Amity is the author of four previous novels: O MY DARLING, THE FOLDED WORLD, SCHRODER and SEA WIFE. SEA WIFE was a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. SCHRODER was also a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2013 according to The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, among others, and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize in 2014. In 2018, Amity was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction. She lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her family and teaches creative writing at Yale.
Amity Gaige
