Amy Hoffman is the author of the memoirs Hospital Time (Duke, 1997); An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News (UMass, 2007); and Lies About My Family (UMass, 2013); and the novels The Off Season (UWisconsin, 2017); and Dot & Ralfie (UWisconsin, 2022). She was editor in chief of Women’s Review of Books from 2003 through 2017 and taught at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program from 2009 through 2023. Her articles have appeared, most recently, in the Boston Review, Gay & Lesbian Review, and The Little Magazine in Contemporary America (UChicago, 2015). Her MFA is from UMass/Amherst.