Amy Sewell's fiction debut is Pocket8s. A published author, her books include The Mad Hot Adventures of a Documentary Filmmaker (Hyperion, 2007) and She's Out There!  The Next Generation of Presidential Candidates (LifeTime Media, 2009). Sewell is also a filmmaker best known for award-winning, audience-favorite MAD HOT BALLROOM. Other films include WHAT’S YOUR POINT, HONEY?, BLINDSPOT, GOOD MUSLIM GIRLS, and currently in production, PASS THROUGH SOLITUDE. Sewell is working to finish her second fiction novel, The Hole in the Rabbit, and has started her next book, Broken Boys. Sewell serves on the Board of nonprofit Reel Works Teen Filmmaking and is passionately involved with the nonprofit working endlessly and tirelessly to get more women elected in every level of government in America - Vote Run Lead. She is a graduate of The University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and has an MBA from Schiller International University. Sewell resides in NYC with her husband of 30 years (a feat), enjoys admiring her 20-something daughters with all they do, and is madly in love with Wanda, her rescue grandpuppy.