Hassinger grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Barnard College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received her M.F.A. in fiction writing. She taught English to middle school students, as well as writing and literature to undergraduates, and is currently on the faculty of the University of Nebraska's M.F.A. in Writing Program. She lives in Urbana, Illinois with her husband and daughter. Hassinger is a former resident of Okemos, Michigan.

"Very few writers are able to give the period of adolescence the wider resonance of serious adult literature. In Nina: Adolescence, Amy Hassinger does so brilliantly. This is an exciting debut by a splendid young writer." -Robert Olen Butler

For more information on Amy Hassinger, please visit her website: http://www.amyhassinger.com/index2.htm

To view Special Collections' holdings of Hassinger's work, please click here.

To hear Hassinger read from her own work, please visit the Vincent Voice Library, here.