Amanda Irene Rush

Amanda Irene Rush is a writer and psychiatric nurse practitioner in central Ohio. She is the author of The Gathering Girl, a memoir which delves into how as a child she navigated, among other things, her mother’s severe mental illness. Her essays and short stories have been published in Vanderbilt Press’ 2008 anthology The Way We Work, Bellevue Literary Review, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog, The Saturday Evening Post‘s online magazine, Peatsmoke, and Black Fork Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Ashland University.

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