Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is an award-winning novelist and short story author. Her novel, Can You See Me? is newly available as an ebook. Told in the voices of Doren and Sarah, a brother and sister so close, they share a secret place, imaginary world, and private language, Can You See Me? is a powerful psychodrama portraying schizophrenia from the inside-out. A recommended choice of The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and a Pushcart Prize nominee, the book has received outstanding reviews and acclaim. Ami's latest novel, The White Space Between, about a mother and daughter grappling with the impact of the Holocaust, is the winner of the Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction. It is a love song to Ami's adopted home city of Montreal and a love story. Her volume of thematically-linked stories, Bloodknots, about the ties that bind people together and the ones that unravel without warning, was a finalist for the Re-Lit Award, honoring the best work from the Indies in Canada. Ami is completing a new novel about three orphans whose lives intersect on the island of Malta. Watch this space and Ami's blog for updates on Faraway Nearby.

Ami has won fellowships to Yaddo, The Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, The St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Malta, The Ragdale Foundation, the Julia and David Arts Foundation in Costa Rica, and Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain.

Ami Sands Brodoff's fiction centers on characters en extremis. She believes people reveal their truest, deepest selves then they are up against it.

Ami is active in Montreal's literary community, teaching workshops, and serving on the Executive of the Quebec Writers' Association. She makes frequent trips back to her beloved birth-place New York City and misses it in her soul.

She is now at work on a new novel and lives in Montreal with her husband, children and Hollywood star of Bernese Mountain dog, Monty Booh, who by-the-way was the inspiration for one of the best loved characters in The White Space Between.

To learn more about Ami, to invite her to teach a workshop, or to chat with her directly, visit her website at Amisandsbrodoff.com and her blog chez-ami.blogspot.com