Amy Brill's articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Time Out New York and Salon, and have been anthologized in Before and After: Stories from New York (2002) and Lost and Found (2009). She has received several fellowships in fiction, including those from the Edward Albee Foundation and The Millay Colony. In 2002, her work on the MTV documentary The Social History of HIV, which she researched and wrote, earned her a Peabody Award. Her first novel, The Movement of Stars, which takes its inspiration from the life of Nantucket-born astronomer Maria Mitchell, was published in April.
