Amanda Pillar is an awarding winning editor and speculative fiction author who lives in Victoria, Australia, with her partner and two children, Saxon and Lilith (Burmese cats).

Amanda has had numerous short stories published and is the Editor-in-Chief for Morrigan Books. She has co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices (2008), Grants Pass (2009), The Phantom Queen Awakes (2010), Scenes from the Second Storey (2010) and Ishtar (2011).

Amanda is currently working with Liz Grzyb on the collection, Damnation and Dames, due out with Ticonderoga Publications (2012). In February 2012, she will also start reading for the Bloodstones anthology.

In her 'free time', she works as an archaeologist.