Amanda Auchter is the founding editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of  the 2012 Perugia Press  Prize, The Glass Crib, winner of the 2010 Zone 3 Press First Book Award for Poetry, and the chapbook Light Under Skin.  She has received awards and honors from Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB Magazine, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Crab Orchard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, and was a 2007 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation.  She holds an MFA from Bennington College and teaches creative writing and literature at Lone Star College.  She is currently at work on a memoir about adoption and the foster care system, What Took You So Long.

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