Pandemic in America

  • Title – Pandemic in America

  • Author – Amanda Barusch

  • Genre – Non-fiction

  • Type – Personal Essay

  • Publication Date – March 1, 2021

  • Publisher – Newsroom New Zealand

  • Medium – Newspaper

  • Available at – Newsroom New Zealand

  • Link – https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ideasroom/pandemic-in-america

  • Synopsis – A personal essay from University of Otago academic Amanda Barusch on living in a United States that has lost more than half a million people to Covid-19.

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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