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Author Bio
Birth—1972
Raised—Rye, New York, USA
Education—B.A., Williams College; M.F.A., University of Montana
Currently—lives in Austin, Texas


Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of seven novels, including How to Be Lost (2005), Close Your Eyes (2011), The Same Sky (2015), and The Nearness of You (2017). Her most recent is The Jetsetters (2020). She has also published a collection of short stories, Love Stories in This Town (2009).

Ward has lived, worked, and studied in such far-flung places as Montana and Greece… Egypt and Maine… South Africa and Cape Cod. She is now settled in Austin, Texas, where she lives with her family. (From the publisher.)