Amanda Rea

Amanda Rea's stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Best American Mystery Stories, One Story, American Short Fiction, Freeman’s, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere. She is recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, and the William Peden Prize.

Everything I Learned About Love I Learned From a Cavewoman

On the Canny Cro-Magnon Woman in Jean M. Auel's Earth's Children Series

June 28, 2019 By Amanda Rea

Growing Up Poor, with Trump on TV

Amanda Rea on the Wide American Gap Between Rich and Poor

February 21, 2017 By Amanda Rea

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