Born in Montreal in 1968, Amanda Marchand is a writer and photographer presently living in New York. Selected writings have appeared in: You and Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing, Matrix #51, Prose Poems and Sudden Fictions: Moosehead Review #6, Throat, and Index Vol.2 #6. She has published two chapbooks, This Tastiness Cannot be Carried Even by Both Hands (Glass-Eye Press), and June Makes a Friend (Conundrum Press). She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA from Queen’s University. She recently completed a two-year residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts while in San Francisco.