You can read an interview with Amy on Authors Answer.

Amy’s writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, LitHub, Working Mother, Points In Case, and The Belladonna. Amy is the author of The Sweet Spot, Musical Chairs, Limelight, and Small Admissions. She attended sessions at the Actors Studio Playwrights/Directors Unit and wrote the theatrical version of Small Admissions, which was performed there as a staged reading in 2011. Amy taught high school English in the Washington, DC suburbs, and after moving to New York, she worked as an assistant director of admissions at an independent school where she had the fulfilling experience of meeting and getting to know hundreds of applicant families. For the past thirty years, they have lived in many cities, including San Francisco, Berlin, and New York, and had three sons along the way. She is married to David Poeppel, a neuroscientist at NYU and Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt. She graduated from Wellesley College and worked as an actress in the Boston area, appearing in a corporate industrial for Polaroid, a commercial for Brooks Pharmacy, and a truly terrible episode of America’s Most Wanted, along with other TV spots and several plays.

Through every dishy, page-turning twist, it seems that one person's happiness leads to another's misfortune, and suddenly everyone, including Kate, is looking for a way to turn rejection on its head, using any means necessary-including the truly unexpected.Amy Poeppel grew up in Dallas, Texas. On top of it all, her cranky, oddly charming, and irritatingly handsome neighbor is more than he seems. Small Admissions A Novel Written by: Amy Poeppel Narrated by: Carly Robins Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins Release date: Language: English 3 ratings Price: 35.08 Try for 0. Meanwhile, Kate's sister and friends find themselves keeping secrets, hiding boyfriends, dropping bombshells, and fighting each other on how to keep Kate on her feet. In her new position, Kate learns there's no time for self-pity during the height of the admissions season. Her friends don't know what to do other than pass tissues and hope for a comeback, while her practical sister, Angela, pushes every remedy she can think of, from trapeze class to therapy to job interviews.įor reasons no one (least of all Kate) understands, she manages to land a job in the admissions department at the prestigious Hudson Day School. After being dumped by her handsome, French 'almost fiancé,' she abandons her grad school plans and spends her days lolling on the couch, leaving her apartment only when a dog-walking gig demands it. Despite her innate ambition and Summa Cum Laude smarts, Kate Pearson has turned into a major slacker.

Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel