Amanda L. Webster grew up in Effingham County, Illinois where she spent much of her childhood writing stories and running through the woods enacting those same stories in her head. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force and has a master’s degree in creative writing from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mandy works full-time at a state university and also works part-time at a small-town library and teaches writing courses at two local community colleges. She was recently elected to a trustee position on the village board of the small town where she now lives in central Illinois with her two sons and two cats. She occasionally has free time, and that is when she writes.