A.J. Rich is the pen name of Amy Hempel and Jill Ciment.Amy is the author of four collections of stories. She lives in New York.Jill is the author of Small Claims, a collection of short stories and novellas; The Law of Falling Bodies, Teeth of the Dog, The Tattoo Artist, Heroic Measures, and Act of God, novels; and Half a Life, a memoir. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, and Brooklyn, New York.