Amanda Leduc is a Canadian writer currently based in Hamilton, Ontario. Her essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Her novel,
The Miracles of Ordinary Men
, was published in 2013 by Toronto's ECW Press.
The first woman I loved was another writer, a woman I met in my second year of university. Let’s call her Emily. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and when I first knew her she wore her hair long, parted straight down the middle. She looked like she was fifteen. She had a boyfriend and she wore shorts even when it was cold. She was sarcastic and angry and hopeful and sad. She was…