"The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel" (2006) gathers all the stories from the four earlier books. She co-edited (with Jim Shepard) "Unleashed–Poems by Writers' Dogs" (1995), which includes contributions by Edward Albee, John Irving, Denis Johnson, Gordon Lish, Arthur Miller, and many others. She writes articles, essays, and short stories for such publications as "Vanity Fair," "Interview," "BOMB", "GQ," "ELLE," "Harper's Magazine," "The Quarterly", and "Playboy". Hempel has participated in several conferences including The Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. In 2015, Hempel judged a flash fiction contest for Nat. Brut magazine.