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Amber Sparks

Amber Sparks is the author of The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.

Amber Sparks

Amber Sparks is the author of The Unfinished World, and her fiction and essays have appeared in American Short Fiction, Paris Review, Tin House, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, DC, with her husband, daughter, and two cats.

Books by Amber Sparks

  • The Unfinished World: And Other Stories

    Amber Sparks

    Paperback, 2016

    A Washington Post Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Selection
    One of Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of the Year

    A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative...

  • And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

    Amber Sparks

    Hardback, 2020

    An NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year

    Populated with such heroes as time-traveling queens and video-game designing goddesses, and such specters as clingy ghosts and mediocre men, And I...
  • And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

    Amber Sparks

    Paperback, 2021

    Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post).
  • The Unfinished World: And Other Stories

    Amber Sparks

    E Book, 2016

    A Washington Post Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Selection
    One of Electric Literature’s Best Short Story Collections of the Year

    A highly anticipated collection of wildly imaginative...

  • And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges

    Amber Sparks

    E Book, 2020

    Amber Sparks holds her crown in the canon of the weird with this fantastical collection of “eye-popping range” (John Domini, Washington Post).