About A.M. Homes:
Amy M. Homes (pen name A. M. Homes; born December 18, 1961) is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably The End of Alice (1996).

A.M. Homes is the author of the novels This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack. She is also the author of the short-story collections Things You Should Know and The Safety of Objects, the travel memoir Los Angeles: People, Places and The Castle on the Hill, as well as the artist's book Appendix A.

Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and appears frequently in Art Forum, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Zoetrope. She is a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair, Bomb and Blind Spot.

She has been the recipient of numerous awards including Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, NYFA, and The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, along with the Benjamin Franklin Award, and the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.

A.M. Homes was a writer/producer of the hit television show The L Word in 2004-2005 and wrote the adaptation of her first novel JACK, for Showtime. The film aired in 2004 and won an Emmy Award for Stockard Channing. Director Rose Troche's film adaptation of The Safety of Objects was released in 2003, and Troche is currently developing In A Country of Mothers as well. Music For Torching is in development with director Steven Shainberg with a script by Buck Henry, and This Book Will Save Your Life is in Development with Stone Village Pictures.

Born in Washington D.C., she now lives in New York City.

-- Taken directly from A.M. Homes' official biography.