Amanda Glaze is an author of acclaimed young adult fiction and an Emmy Award–winning film and television producer. Her debut novel, The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond, inspired by her real-life spirit medium ancestors, was selected as a Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick and honored by the American Library Association as a Rise Feminist Book Project Selection. Her most recent novel, The Lies of Alma Blackwell, draws on her fascination with the enigmatic Winchester Mystery House and was called a “cinematic” and “gripping supernatural thriller” by Kirkus Reviews.
As a film and television producer, Amanda is the recipient of two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Producers Guild of America nomination. Over the course of her career, she has developed and produced projects ranging from romantic comedies to documentaries, including the Academy Award–nominatedfilm THE BIG SICK, the Emmy Award–winning HBO documentaries The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling and George Carlin’s American Dream, and the romantic comedy Trainwreck starring Amy Schumer and Bill Hader.
Amanda grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she spent most of her time with her nose in a book or putting on plays with friends. From there, she studied theater at UCLA and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. She is passionate about supporting young storytellers and works both one-on-one and in group settings with kids and teens as a creative writing and screenwriting mentor through organizations such as the Society of Young Inklings and WriteGirl. When she’s not writing, she can usually be found curled up with a book and a pair of cats or running off to the mountains with her husband.
