Allison Amend (born May 20, 1974) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Amend was born in Chicago, Illinois,[1] attended Stanford University,[2] and received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop[3] at the University of Iowa.

In 2008, OV Books, an imprint of Dzanc Books, published her debut book, a short story collection called Things That Pass for Love.

She has published two novels and a third[4] was published by Nan A. Talese in May 2016.

Amend teaches writing at Lehman College in New York City.