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Amanda thinks it will probably sound more professional if she refers to herself in the third person.

        Amanda was spawned in Cleveland, Ohio, and blames all of her emotional and physical problems on air pollution and the popularity of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. She received a less-than-stellar education attending Cleveland Public Schools, where her third grade teacher was known to disappear "to go to the bathroom" for six hours at a time. After annoying the crap out of the folks at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, they decided to let Amanda write for them. Starting with music and movie reviews, Amanda became both an advice columnist and an average, every day columnist. This lead to work with a number of local writing organizations, and publication in poetry chapbooks. In short, Amanda peaked before she hit eighteen.

        After graduating from John Marshall High School, Amanda went to the only school that offered her a full scholarship: Ohio University. There she met a number of teachers that guffawed openly at her plethora of grammatical errors, and was forced to read Jane Eyre sixteen times. She learned a couple of things too, but she'll never admit it. Amanda also won a bunch of awards while attending Ohio University (see her resume), completed an undergraduate thesis, and was a total activities dork. Amanda has also written the column "Shaken, Not Stirred" for the Athens News for four years, and now writes columns and more for the Athens Rave.

        Having graduated from Ohio University, Amanda now works tech support for Frognet, Inc. and is pondering the merits of attending grad school. After a weekend of hiking and hobnobbing in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Amanda became inspired and is at work on a novel entitled Smile. She also hopes to engage in a number of collaborative creative projects in order to best prove that she does, in fact, play well with others.

        Amanda likes bunnies, fountain pens, cake, and things that are shiny. She likes hanging out at airports so she can look at other people's luggage in utter admiration. Amanda is allergic to fish, clowns, and nuts of all sorts. Her last job was working as one of Ms. Cleo's Psychic Friends. She quit when she discovered that they had no interest in paying their employees. No, she's not kidding.