Amanda K Horn is a writer and editor based in New York. Her fiction has appeared in publications including Door Is A Jar, The Greensboro Review, New Delta Review, Southeast Review, and The Madison Review. Her work has received honorable mentions in the Center for Fiction/Susan Kahil’s 2021 Emerging Writer Fellowship, and in Glimmer Train’s 2017 New Writers Contest.

She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the 2019 Felipe De Alba Fellowship. She has studied with writers including Deborah Eisenberg, Samuel Lipsyte, Samantha Hunt, and James Hannaham. Straddling the line between sci-fi and literary fiction, her work explores themes of loss and grief, transformation, complex family dynamics, and the tension between natural and man-made worlds.

She has served as an editor for The Offing and The Columbia Journal, and as a fiction reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter. She is the founding editor of Twin Bird Review, an online publication for imaginative art and literature.

She is currently an editor in film and media studies at Berghahn Books, an independent academic press specializing in the humanities and social sciences.