Gary Amdahl has published six books, and produced nine plays. He was awarded two Jerome Fellowships at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis and a Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, AGNI, A Public Space and many other monthlies, weeklies, and dailies. He lives in Redlands, CA and is married to author Leslie Brody.
Praise for Gary Amdahl Amdahl is one whose gifts are staggering and hard-won. The stories relate, by the way of guts through grace, the wholeness of a novel too good for mere philosophy. Gary Amdahl knows sports, men, women, and dogs, thank God, so thoroughly as to make them myth. Camus comes to mind: thought with extreme muscle. Barry Hannah Praise for Visigoth Although rich in anger and brutality, the stories collected in Visigoth are told with charm and a ranging, passionate intelligence. -- Ken Kalfus Gary Amdahl's vivid stories are at once lyrical and unexpectedly in your face. . . A book we'll remember. -- Thomas McGuane The men. . . . range from lotharios. . . to hockey jocks. . . But in Amdahl's highly literary, tragicomic vision, they melt our doubting hearts. -- Elle Magazine These are smart, fully realized stories sensitive, layered and deliberate ... there s something freeing, refreshing, about Amdahl s voracious, inappropriate Visigoths. -- The Los Angeles Times