Jennifer Amey grew up in a small town, and moved as far away as she could as soon as she had the chance.
Leaving her hometown of Almonte at the age of seventeen, she fled to Australia for a year and a half, returning to study Theatre and English at the University of Ottawa before the inevitable move to Toronto.
Supporting herself with jobs in fields as diverse as retail sales, film and television, manufacturing, public relations, selling popcorn in a movie theatre and photoshopping pictures of raw meat, she pursued a career as a writer, with short fiction appearing in Pindeldyboz and Eyeshot, and essays and opinion in *Spark, Hive Magazine, McSweeneys, and the Globe and Mail. Together with Toronto writer Jill Murray, she co-founded and co-hosts itch: the reading series. She is also the Editor and Illustrator of the world's smallest magazine, the Postcard Project. In September 2003, she received a Toronto Arts Council grant to pursue her writing. She is most grateful for their support and recognition.
Sundowning is her first novel.