Amanda Faraone is a writer. Her fiction and interviews have appeared in Curbside Splendor, Ghost Ocean Magazine, and BOMB, among others. She received a BA with High Honors in Sociology from Wesleyan University and an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College. Until 2016, she worked at One Story and curated the reading series Flint Fiction in Brooklyn. She now lives in Austin, where she volunteers with American Short Fiction and edits her debut novel about teenage girls and love magic.