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​Amanda's Bios

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Amanda Pillar is an USA Today Bestselling author and award-winning editor who lives in Australia. Amanda is the author of the Graced series, the Heaven's Heart series, and the standalone book, Haunt Me. Amanda has co-edited six fiction anthologies and solo-edited three. She is also an archaeologist.

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Amanda Pillar is an USA Today Bestselling author and award-winning editor who lives in Australia.

Amanda has had numerous short stories published and 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). She also solo edited the anthologies  Bloodstones, Bloodlines (published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2012 and 2015), and Flame's Embrace (2020), a charity anthology.

Amanda is the author of the standalone book Haunt Me, the Graced Series, the Heaven's Heart series, and co-author (with K.V Adair) of the Moonlit Hills series.

In her day job, she’s an archaeologist.

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Amanda Pillar is an USA Today Bestselling author and award-winning editor, who writes and edits urban fantasy, romance, horror and science fiction. Amanda lives in Australia with her husband and two kids. She's the author of the unique Graced series and the Heaven's Heart series, and is the co-author of the Moonlit Hills series. She is also the author of Haunt Me, a standalone book in the Immortal Vices and Virtues world. She has had over a dozen short stories published, with her fiction appearing in Space and Time Magazine, Kisses by Clockwork, Cranky Ladies of History, the Red Penny Papers, with more to come.

Amanda won the Aurealis Award for Best Anthology in 2015, the Australian Shadows for Best Edited publication in 2010, and has been a finalist in the Aurealis Awards three times, the Ditmars three times and the Australian Shadows once. Amanda co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices (2008) (with Mark Deniz), Grants Pass (2009) (with Jennifer Brozek), The Phantom Queen Awakes (2010) (with Mark Deniz), Scenes from the Second Storey (2010) (with Pete Kempshall), Ishtar (2011) (with KV Taylor), and Damnation and Dames (2012) (with Liz Grzyb). Her solo anthologies include: Bloodstones (2012), Bloodlines (2015), and the charity anthology, Flame's Embrace (2020).

In her day job, she's an archaeologist.