Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of the chapbook Light Under Skin (Finishing Line Press, 2006).  She has received numerous awards and honors from Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB Magazine, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Bucknell University, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, the University of Houston,  and was a 2007 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.  Her writing appears or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Court Green, Indiana Review, The Iowa Review, Pleiades, MiPOesias, RHINO, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing, literature, and composition at Lone Star College-CyFair.