Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Arthur Miller, and many others. She writes articles, essays, and short stories for such publications as Vanity Fair, Interview, BOMB, GQ, ELLE, Harper's Magazine, The Quarterly, and Playboy. Hempel has participated in several conferences including The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. In 2015, Hempel judged a flash fiction contest for Nat. Brut magazine. Generally termed a minimalist writer, along with Raymond Carver, Mary Robison, and Frederick Barthelme, Hempel is one of a handful of writers who has built a reputation based solely on short fiction. Hempel purposefully leaves her stories' narrators unnamed, as "there are more possibilities when you don't pin down a person with a name and an age and a background because then people can bring something to them or take something from them." Hempel currently teaches in the MFA Program at the Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin. Awards In 2000, Hempel received the Hobson Award and was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she was awarded a USA Fellowship grant by United States Artists, an arts advocacy foundation dedicated to the support and promotion of America's top living artists. She won the Ambassador Book Award in 2007 for her Collected Stories, which was also named as one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the year. In 2008, she won the Rea Award for the Short Story. In 2009, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction along with Alistair MacLeod. In 2015, Hempel received the John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence from Centenary College. Bibliography Reasons to Live (1985) At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990) Tumble Home (1997) Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs (1999) (editor, with Jim Shepard) The Dog of the Marriage London : Quercus, 2008. , The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel New York: Scribner, 2006. , New Stories from the South 2010: The Year's Best (editor with Kathy Pories) Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. , Sing to It New York : Scribner, 2019. , References External links Hempel interviewed at Gigantic Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National Interview of Amy Hempel by Rob Hart Full text of "Today Will Be A Quiet Day" by Amy Hempel Full Text of "Offertory" by Amy Hempel Short Story: "In