Featured writing projects
CNET and Forbes.com contributor
Testing out "Back to the Future: Part II" shoes.
I've dumped red wine on a hydrophobic t-shirt, tasted one of the world's hottest hot sauces, test-driven an electric unicycle and investigated a mushroom growing on a frog during my work as a freelance contributor to CNET and a senior contributor with Forbes.com.
Both outlets have given me the opportunity to create fun, catchy content on tight deadlines. I frolic through topics ranging from weird discoveries on Mars to the internet's obsession with optical illusions to broadband across the U.S.
Both outlets have given me the opportunity to create fun, catchy content on tight deadlines. I frolic through topics ranging from weird discoveries on Mars to the internet's obsession with optical illusions to broadband across the U.S.
Poetry / Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
TriQuarterly: The Spiders and the Red Jar
Saturday Evening Post: Miss Sunbeam
Stanchion: Closer Today, The Mountain in Issue 13
lean and loafe.: I Awoke Without Surprise/ The Aspen and the Pine/ To Build a Forest
Chestnut Review: How to Drown a Kraken
New Mexico Poetry Anthology: I've heard there are porcupines in the canopy
Vast Chasm: Every Train a Lantern
101 Words: Eviction
Unstamatic: dearest Unstamatic
Yellow Arrow Journal: Handsome
The Twin Bill: Captain Dynamite Will Blow Himself Up
The Hallowzine: A Twisted Child
Amanda's novel-length fiction work is represented by literary agent Julia Kim of The Rights Factory.
Saturday Evening Post: Miss Sunbeam
Stanchion: Closer Today, The Mountain in Issue 13
lean and loafe.: I Awoke Without Surprise/ The Aspen and the Pine/ To Build a Forest
Chestnut Review: How to Drown a Kraken
New Mexico Poetry Anthology: I've heard there are porcupines in the canopy
Vast Chasm: Every Train a Lantern
101 Words: Eviction
Unstamatic: dearest Unstamatic
Yellow Arrow Journal: Handsome
The Twin Bill: Captain Dynamite Will Blow Himself Up
The Hallowzine: A Twisted Child
Amanda's novel-length fiction work is represented by literary agent Julia Kim of The Rights Factory.
The Library of Lost Trees
Every journalist has a novel (or novels). On a remote island off the coast of Maine in 1903, a young woman discovers a scholar’s body dashed against the forbidden cliffs. Ancient libraries and heirloom apple orchards lead her to a secret tracing back through time to the paradise gardens of antiquity.
The Library of Lost Trees is a melding of mystery and botany—and an unexpected view on the mythology of the Garden of Eden. The novel arose out of research into the origins of the Hardy Women's Society and the independent women who founded the great ladies' club at the turn of the 20th century.
I've also written a postmodern metaphysical detective fiction-memoir story, a genre-bouncing tale of a lost stepfather, a search ranging from California to Illinois to Arkansas and an investigation of how childhood influences make a person. A Patchwork Person is the anchor of my MFA dissertation project, The Buried Train.
The Library of Lost Trees is a melding of mystery and botany—and an unexpected view on the mythology of the Garden of Eden. The novel arose out of research into the origins of the Hardy Women's Society and the independent women who founded the great ladies' club at the turn of the 20th century.
I've also written a postmodern metaphysical detective fiction-memoir story, a genre-bouncing tale of a lost stepfather, a search ranging from California to Illinois to Arkansas and an investigation of how childhood influences make a person. A Patchwork Person is the anchor of my MFA dissertation project, The Buried Train.
On the Turquoise Trail
New Mexico turquoise.
An assignment for New Mexico Magazine sent me out on Highway 14, the state's famous Turquoise Trail. I met with a color-blind miner, talked with jewelers, explored the quaint shops of Madrid, and stood inside the famous Tiffany Mine near Cerrillos.
My quest for the iconic blue stone led to On the Turquoise Trail, a feature article that delves into New Mexico's turquoise legacy and the people who keep its azure spirit alive today.
My quest for the iconic blue stone led to On the Turquoise Trail, a feature article that delves into New Mexico's turquoise legacy and the people who keep its azure spirit alive today.
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