Amy Aves Challenger
FICTION
I write to unravel meaning in nature, particularly the smallest lives, the most overlooked beauty, and the wisdom there. I write to let language and imagery pull me closer to strangers, and then to pull readers closer to one another. I write to grow wiser as a mother, a friend, a woman, an artist, and a wife, and then to transform, to locate doorways to hope.
Novels
I'm thrilled to be querying my debut novel manuscript, The Authority of Innocence, a speculative work set in a near-future authoritarian state that divides, systematizes, and monitors life while losing the ability to physically sense it. Here, a mother and her neurodivergent child, along with a refugee mother and child seek freedom via nature and their abilities to see, hear, and engage with their physical world.
My second book project is underway as I investigate, through art and writing, the story of rebellious female troublemakers who fled to the rule-based Switzerland to pursue the creative freedom they were willing to suffer for.
Short Stories
I'm Not Going to School Today
Zizzle Literary, Hardcover Issue 2
and Zizzle Select Hardcover Series
Based on a character from my debut novel, querying now.
Reviewed by Publisher's Weekly
Good Reads, and Kirkus Reviews and Booklife Reviews
The Next Shot
Flash fiction, Kind of a Hurricane Press
2016