Good as Gone (Gentry)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1977-78
• Raised—West Houston, Texas, USA
• Education—B.A., University of Texas-Austin; Ph.D., University of Chicago
• Currently—lives in Austin, Texas


Amy Gentry lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and two cats.

After graduating in 2011 with a PhD in English from the University of Chicago, she began a freelance writing career, writing book reviews, cultural criticism, and, for one strange and wonderful year, a fashion column.

She frequently reviews fiction for the Chicago Tribune Printer’s Row Journal, and her writing has appeared in Salon.com, xoJane, The Rumpus, the Austin Chronicle, the Texas Observer, LA Review of Books, Gastronomica, and the Best Food Writing of 2014. Good as Gone, her first thriller, is set in her hometown of Houston, Texas (From the publisher.)

Read the interview with Austin Statesman.