About
Ammi Keller has been writing, teaching, and/or working in book publishing since 1996.
Ammi was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. Her short stories can be found in The Common, American Short Fiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Norton Island Colony, and the Lambda Retreat for Emerging Writers. Starting in the late '90s, Ammi penned the zine Emergency. She is currently at work on a book of short stories about GenX women and queer people during the COVID pandemic.
As a teacher and editor, Ammi workshopped literary greats as a Stegner Fellow and taught first novelists in Stanford’s Online Certificate Program in Novel Writing. She has led classes, workshops and retreats on writing craft, creativity and mindfulness through Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program, Stanford’s Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, San Francisco’s Healing Arts Collective, and elsewhere.
Before becoming a teacher, she worked in publishing, in the editorial department of TOR/Forge, a subsidiary of St. Martin’s Press, and as an acquiring editor, manuscript editor and marketing manager for Soft Skull Books. Ammi graduated summa cum laude from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a BA in Writing and Literature.