Amie Steir is a filmmaker and novelist. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in creative writing and began her career running the New York City department for MTV Films, where she covered the book industry, indie film scene, and theater world. As a creative executive, she worked on films including Election, 200 Cigarettes, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, and Varsity Blues.

After leaving MTV, Steir wrote and directed award-winning films for HBO, MTV, Oxygen, RSA Films, USA Network, Warner Bros. Television, and for artists including Madonna. Her short film Perfect, produced by Ridley Scott Films and starring Tony Hale, was commissioned by USA Network as one of four narrative shorts for its Character Project and toured nationally.

Two of her short films—Zoe Loses It (starring Amanda Peet, Gretchen Mol, and Amy Poehler) and Date Squad (starring Amanda Peet, Sandra Oh, and Adam Scott)—aired on HBO and screened at festivals worldwide. Her first feature script, She Rocks, was optioned by Madonna, and she wrote and directed the feature Nadine in Date Land (starring Janeane Garofalo) for Oxygen. She has also sold comedy pilots to MTV and ABC Family.

Steir is a two-time nominee for the Allegra Johnson Prize and the Kirkwood Prize at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. When I Knew Everything is her debut novel.