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Amanda Niehaus
Amanda Niehaus is an Australian-American biologist and writer. Her work can be found in AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, The Writer, NOON Annual, Best Australian Essays, and more; were nominated for the Pushcart Prize by CN and AGNI; and she won the 2017 VU Story Prize. Her widely-acclaimed first novel, The Breeding Season (Allen & Unwin, 2019), explores evolutionary trade-offs between breeding and longevity, mating conflict, and the strange lives of northern quolls—in the context of a Brisbane couple struggling with great loss; it was a Queensland Literary Award finalist and named a Best of 2019 by the Australian Book Review.