Amanda Kallis

(pronounced ‘KAY-Liss’)

Amanda is a writer with an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Los Angeles, she lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. She writes primarily speculative fiction, as well as essays and poetry.

Her work has appeared in Catapult, the Black Warrior Review (nonfiction contest winner), McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere.

She’s taught creative writing courses at The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Catapult, the University of Iowa, and elsewhere.

She was an Edward Albee Foundation artist-in-residence and winner of the Imagination Unbound fellowship at Under the Volcano.

She also writes Future Debris, a newsletter on the literary / science fiction boundaries.

Here she is hugging a robot

An amateur photographer, the photos you’ll find on this site are hers (except for the above photo of her, taken by Mitchell Urbanowicz). Sometimes her photography appears in her work.

Illustration by Sophie Saunders.