Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing
Based In: New York, NY
Year at Millay: 2019
Awards/Honors: Fellow, Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship, The Center for Fiction, New York, NY (2023–2024–2025); Grant Recipient, Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC (2024); Fellow, Fiction, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (2021); Fellow, The Margins Fellowship, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, New York, NY (2019).
Website: https://www.amandaajamfar.com/
Amanda Ajamfar is a writer currently living on Lenapehoking. Her work has been published in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and the Colorado Review. She has been generously supported by awards and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the New York Foundation for the Arts/the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Center for Fiction.