Amanda Kimmerly received her B.A. in Journalism from Stephen F. Austin State University. Now living in Austin, Texas, she juggles three jobs, copy-editing and marketing books for Sci-Fi author Robert Stikmanz, reading fiction submissions for Fringe Literary Magazine, and managing a coffeeshop. Her fiction has appeared in Storychord Online Magazine and poetry in the art project Poetry For The Masses. Currently, she is co-writing a YA novel and a glossary for an invented language in The Hidden Lands of Nod book series, as well as workshopping short stories in her writer's group, We Put Words On Paper. Follow her on Facebook, or at her blog, messymuse.wordpress.com