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 an editor for Morrigan Books and Ticonderoga Publications. She has co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices (2008), Grants Pass (2009), The Phantom Queen Awakes (2010), Scenes from the Second Storey (2010), Ishtar (2011) and Damnation and Dames (2012). Her first solo collection has recently been published by Ticonderoga Publications, titled Bloodstones (2012).

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