Amber Dermont
Amber Dermont is an American author. She has a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, and she is a faculty member at Rice University.Books
Dermont is the author of two books: The Starboard Sea, a novel, and Damage Control, a story collection.
The Starboard Sea is a novel about a boy who transfers to a new prep school after a tragedy involving his sailing partner. The book was a New York Times best seller and was named one of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2012. It was also a finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction.
