Amity Gaige is the bestselling author of five novels, O My Darling (2005), The Folded World (2007), Schroder (2013), Sea Wife (2020) and Heartwood (2025). Heartwood has been called “the best thriller of the year” by The Boston Globe, a Best Book of the Year So Far overall and a Best Crime Book of the Year So Far by The New York Times and a Top 20 of 2025 So Far by the editors at Amazon. Heartwood has been described as “gratifying as a daffodil at the end of a long winter” (The New York Times) and “a terrifically moving and tense thriller… genius” (The Washington Post). Some of America’s most lauded writers have endorsed the book, calling it an “a literary thriller of the highest order… an absolute must-read,” (Elin Hilderbrand), “impossible to put down” (Jennifer Egan). Angie Kim called Heartwood “one of the most emotionally satisfying and heartwarming stories I’ve read in a long time,” and God of the Woods author Liz Moore wrote, “I did not want it to end.” Heartwood was Jenna Bush Hager’s “Read with Jenna” pick for April 2025. Amity appeared on The Today Show with Jenna twice and was a featured guest at the inaugural Read With Jenna Book Festival in Nashville in May of 2025. Heartwood became a national bestseller.

Sea Wife, about a family of four that attempts to sail across the Caribbean, was described by The New York Times as, “stunning… Gaige tows you to tragedy with the graceful crawl of a poet and the motorboat intensity of a suspense author.” People Magazine named Sea Wife Book of the Week and noted “Gaige’s razor-sharp novel is also such gripping escapism that it feels like a lifeboat.” Sea Wife was named a 2020 New York Times Notable Book and was a finalist for the Mark Twain American Voice Award. Amity’s 2013 novel, Schroder, about a father with a secret identity, was also a New York Times Notable Book, and a Best Book of 2013 (Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, among others). Schroder was translated into 18 languages and was shortlisted for UK’s Folio Prize (now Rathbones) in 2014. In 2016, Amity was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.

Amity has appeared on some of the biggest literary stages, from the LA Times Book Festival, the National Book Festival in D.C., and the Rome Festival of International Literature. She has made appearances on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and “All of It” with Allison Stewart, as well as spoken extensively at numerous universities. She lives with her family in West Hartford, Connecticut, and teaches at Yale.