Author Press Kit
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Bios
View four Author Bios of varying lengths: Short Bio, Medium Bio, Long Bio, and Professional Introduction.
Throughline
(14 words)
Amanda Barusch writes fiction, essays, and scholarship about aging, memory, identity, family, and the ways people reinvent themselves across a lifetime.
Short Bio
(65 words)
Amanda Barusch writes fiction, essays, and scholarship about aging, memory, identity, family, and the stories people tell to make sense of their lives. A Kiwi-American writer and emeritus professor, she is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage. Her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in publications in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Medium Bio
(121 words)
Amanda Barusch writes fiction, essays, and scholarship about aging, memory, family, identity, and transformation. Her work explores the ways people make meaning from their lives, often at moments of change, loss, reinvention, and discovery.
A Kiwi-American writer, Amanda divides her time between New Zealand and the American West. She is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, and her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in publications in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. She is also the founder of Yawning Fox Press, an independent literary press.
Whether writing creatively or academically, she is drawn to questions that resist easy answers and to stories that reveal the complexity of being human.
Long Bio
(248 words)
Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, matchmaker, exotic dancer, editor, professor, and writer. Along the way, she developed a fascination with the stories people tell, the stories they inherit, and the stories that help them survive.
Today, Amanda writes fiction, essays, and scholarship about aging, memory, family, identity, and transformation. Her work often inhabits the space between literary and scholarly inquiry, exploring the questions that arise as people navigate change, loss, belonging, resilience, and reinvention.
Amanda is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, Love Stories of Later Life, and Older Women in Poverty. Her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in literary publications in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. She is also the founder of Yawning Fox Press, an independent literary press.
A Kiwi-American writer, Amanda divides her time between New Zealand and the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths and back roads. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Fiction and Book Arts from the University of Utah. She is Emeritus Professor at both the University of Utah and the University of Otago.
Amanda is particularly interested in the ways ordinary lives reveal extraordinary truths about what it means to be human. She has an abiding affection for ambiguity, a healthy suspicion of boundaries, and a lifelong curiosity about how people make meaning from their lives.
Professional Introduction
(115 words)
Amanda Barusch is a Kiwi-American writer, scholar, and emeritus professor whose work explores aging, anger, care, memory, identity, and the stories people tell to make sense of their lives. She is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Aging Angry: Making Peace with Rage, Love Stories of Later Life, and Older Women in Poverty. Her essays, poetry, and short fiction have appeared in publications in the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and she is the founder of Yawning Fox Press, an independent literary press.
Amanda’s work often moves between literary and scholarly inquiry, asking how people navigate change, loss, belonging, resilience, and reinvention across a lifetime. Please welcome Amanda Barusch.
Contact Info
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Business Address:
Amanda Barusch
6472 E Aspen Lp Rd
Kamas, UT 84036
USA
Business Phone:
+1 385 429 0104
Business Email:
amanda@amandabarusch.com
Official Website:
amandabarusch.com
Socials:
Logo
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Brand Standards Guide
1. Official Logo Files
Logotype
Charcoal: PNG, SVG, PDF → Primary logo for nearly all uses
Black: PNG, SVG, PDF → One-color reproduction
White: PNG, SVG, PDF → Dark backgrounds
Logo Mark
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2. Official Brand Colors
Primary Logo Color: Brand Charcoal
HEX: #1e2829
RGB: 30, 40, 41
CMYK: 27, 2, 0, 84
Secondary production colors: Black and White only.
3. Logo Usage
Charcoal: Use on white and light backgrounds.
White: Use on dark backgrounds and photography.
Black: Use for one-color printing when required.
4. Clear Space & Minimum Size
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Recommended minimum size: 32 mm (1.25 in) wide in print or 180 px wide on screen.
5. Incorrect Usage
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Do not rotate the logo.
Do not add shadows, outlines, or effects.
Do not recolor the logo except to the official Charcoal, Black, or White versions.
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How to Pronounce My Name
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Amanda Barusch
Media Mentions
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Pitch
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Hi, I'm Amanda Barusch, and this is my two-minute introduction.
I never planned to retire. I was going to be one of those perky old professors who mentor students, publish original research, and teach classes well into my 80s. When I even thought about retirement, I always figured I would do it successfully. In fact, I planned to be so good at it that I could write a book on aging. Well, it's a really popular topic. Things did not go as planned. A new boss came and announced to the world that I was in the twilight of my career. What followed was a couple of very difficult years that led me to conclude that I had no choice but to leave the job I had loved for over 35 years.
As I packed up my books, I realized I was really not aging well; I was aging angry. For the first few years after retirement, I studied anger. I read everything I could get my hands on. I met with experts on topics ranging from anger norms in ancient Rome to the latest techniques for anger management. I collected stories from hundreds of people who, like me, found themselves angry in later life. These older adults shared lessons they had gleaned from some of life's most difficult experiences. They became the basis of my new book, Aging Angry.
I would love to talk with you about anger or aging ... anything really. Please feel free to contact me via my website: amandabarusch.com. Thank you for listening.
Publications
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Scholarship
Literature
Social Media Accounts
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Conference Paper
On story as research