Amanda Hollander is a librettist and fiction writer based in Brooklyn.

She recently was selected along with composer Wojciech Stepien to adapt Christopher Isherwood’s novel A Single Man as an opera. Her libretto for opera, Quake, set by composer Kay Rhie, premiered through UCLA’s Department of Music in June 2023. During the 2019-2021 cycle, she was one of two librettist fellows with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice Program. Her short stories, “Madness Afoot” and “A Feast of Butterflies” appeared in the Sept/Oct 2019 70th Anniversary issue and the Mar/Apr issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, respectively. “A Feast of Butterflies” was selected for Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Fantasy & Science Fiction, 2021. She also has published stories in Daily Science Fiction, Diabolical Plots and Augur Magazine. Her short story “A Strange and Muensterous Desire” published by Diabolical Plots made the 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List. Hollander was the recipient of the inaugural Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Student Writer Scholarship, the SCBWI-LA Sue Alexander Grant, and a Highlights Foundation scholarship. In addition to her creative work, she holds a doctorate in Victorian literature from UCLA and has published several academic articles on fin-de-siècle children’s literature. She is represented by Sam Farkas, Jill Grinberg Literary Management.