Amy Brill is an award-winning writer and producer who has worked for PBS and MTV. Her fiction and nonfiction have been published in Salon, Guernica, Time Out New York, and Redbook, among others, and anthologized in Before and After- Stories from New York and Lost and Found. She has won fellowships in fiction from the Edward Albee Foundation, Jentel, the Millay Colony, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two small daughters. The Movement of Stars is her first novel.
In Hannah, Amy Brill has fashioned an extraordinary character and quiet hero -- a woman who charts her own course, and who places knowledge and her own soul's independence up with the highest, brightest stars Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife Amy Brill shines in her sparkling debut novel, The Movement of Stars, inspired by the work of a 19th-century female astronomer Vanity Fair A spectacular debut ... I cheered for Hannah Price, our feisty heroine, as she unraveled the mystery of her own desires while burning a trail for other women to follow Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief Probing yet accessible, beautifully written and richly characterized Kirkus A bittersweet story, movingly told ... Brill's uncluttered prose mirrors her heroine's clear eye and Quaker reserve as Hannah explores both the expanding universe and her burgeoning emotions -- amid increasingly binding circumstances. Daphne Kalotay, author of Russian Winter Compelling ... A stirring historical drama Booklist