Эми М. Хоумс — об авторе

Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot. Several times a year she collaborates on book projects with artists—among them Eric Fischl, Rachel Whiteread, Cecily Brown, Bill Owens, Julie Speed, Michal Chelbin, Petah Coyne, Carroll Dunham, Catherine Opie and Todd Hido.

She has also created original television pilots for HBO, FX and CBS and was a writer/producer of the Showtime series The L Word. Additionally, Homes wrote the adaptation of her first novel JACK, for Showtime. Director Rose Troche's 2003 adaptation of The Safety of Objects marks the screen debut of Kristen Stewart. Other Homes novels currently in development include, In A Country of Mothers, Music For Torching and This Book Will Save Your Life.

In addition she has been active on the Boards of Directors of Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center In Provincetown, The Writers Room, and PEN-where she chairs both the membership committee and the Writers Fund. Additionally she serves on the Presidents Council for Poets and Writers.

PERSONAL:
Homes currently lives in New York City with her young daughter. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia University, The New School, and New York University. She currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
In her memoir The Mistress's Daughter, she describes meeting her birth parents. Her birth mother, Ellen Ballman, is a mentally unstable woman who had a child with her much older, married boss, Norman Hecht. She initiated contact because she was hoping that Homes would donate a kidney to her.
In April 2007, she stated in the Washington Post, “I've dated men and I've dated women and there's no more or less to it than that.” In an interview with Diva magazine she said, "‘I am bisexual, but I wouldn’t necessarily define myself that way."