Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is an award-winning author who lives in Montreal, Quebec.
Ami Sands Brodoff is the author of three books of fiction, two novels, and a volume of stories. Her debut novel, “Can You See Me?” focuses on a family struggling with schizophrenia, centering on a brother and sister so close, they share a secret place, imaginary world, and private language during childhood. While Sarah eventually outgrows their private haven, for Doren, it becomes a way of life he never surrenders. Sarah struggles to help Doren, even to save him, without understanding the consequences. An excerpt of “Can You See Me? was published by TriQuarterly and nominated for The Pushcart Prize.
“Bloodknots,” Brodoff’s second book is a collection of thematically-linked stories about family, both present and absent, about the threads that bind people together and the ones that unravel without warning. Her characters are society’s marginalized who struggle to free themselves from lives hiding in shadows. “Bloodknots” was a finalist for the Re-Lit Award, honouring the best in Canadian fiction from the independent publishers.
Brodoff’s most recent book is the novel, The White Space Between, published in Fall, 2008, centering on a mother and daughter grappling with the impact and reverberations of the Holocaust. The novel is also a love-song to Brodoff’s adopted home city of Montreal and a love story. A gifted marionette-maker and puppeteer, Willow Ives is a loner and artist who finds more comfort in her creations than in human relationships. Her mother Jana’s struggle to spare her the pain and weight of the past has left her incomplete and longing to find her missing history.
In addition to writing fiction, Brodoff contributes essays, reviews, and articles to national magazines and to newspapers, such as ‘The Globe and Mail’’, ‘The Montreal Gazette’’, and ‘The Montreal Review of Books’’.
She has won fellowships to numerous writer’s colonies, such as Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, and The St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, Malta, among others. Brodoff is on the Executive of the Quebec Writers’ Federation Board and is active in Montreal’s literary community.

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