Amanda has been passionate about writing since age 8, crafting many short stories, poems, novellas, and screen plays. While Amanda's first foray into publishing is a memoir (dedicated to her late husband, Lars), she has many fiction books in the works, set to be published by the end of 2025.
Amanda lives in rural northwestern Minnesota, with her husband, Justin, and four children, Blaise, Sophie, Indigo, and Kellen. In addition to writing, she also enjoys music, fitness, the outdoors, cooking, and baking.
Eugenia Mancini Horan is an artist, lifelong anxiety sufferer and an early patient of humor and laughter as her medicine. She spent 2019 finding, then fighting stage 4 lung cancer and defeating it by 2020, most likely one of the coolest things she’s done. That year in the medical system as an end-stage cancer patient with a doctor sworn promise of 0% odds of living through August 2019 gave her a unique perspective about illness and survival. She proudly mothers two questionably behaved dogs and is married to the man who carried her everywhere that year she couldn’t walk
