Ami Sands Brodoff is an award-winning novelist, short story author, and reviewer. Her latest novel, The White Space Between, centers on a mother and daughter grappling with the impact and reverberations of the Holocaust. The novel is written in honour and memory of Ami’s lost extended family.

She is also the author of the story collection, Bloodknots, short-listed for the Re-Lit Award, honouring the best in Canadian books from the independent publishers.This risky and powerful collection centers on orphans, strays, and characters who have lost or been cut off from family and must find it where they may. Many of the stories in the volume have won prizes, been anthologized, and are being taught at colleges.

Ami’s debut novel, Can You See Me? is a recommended choice of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and focuses on the impact of schizophrenia within a family. The novel is based, in part, on Ami’s own struggle to cope with the illness in a beloved sibling. An excerpt of the novel was nominated for The Pushcart Prize.

Ami has contributed to Vogue, Self, Elle, The Globe and Mail, and Montreal’s The Gazette. She has received fellowships to Yaddo, The Virigina Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), The Ragdale Foundation, and the St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Malta, among others. Ami serves on Executive of The Quebec Writers’ Federation and teaches creative writing through QWF, the Writers In Cegep Program and the Writers in the Schools Program in Quebec as well as privately. She is active in Montreal’s literary community.

Ami is a professional member of PEN American Center. She serves on the Executive of the Quebec Writer's Federation, and is a member of The Writers Union of Canada.

Ami grew up in New York and now makes her home in Montreal with her husband, children, and Bernese Mountain dog. She is hard at work on a new novel and blogs frequently at chez-ami.blogspot.com.

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