Amanda Crum is a writer and artist whose work has been published in Barren Magazine, Eastern Iowa Review, The Hellebore, and more. Her poetry and short stories have been included in several anthologies, including Beyond The Hill and Two Eyes Open. She is the author of The Darkened Mirror, a middle-grade novel, and Cinders and Glass, a chapbook of dark fairy-tale poetry, as well as The Madness In Our Marrow and Tall Grass, two chapbooks of horror poetry which both made the shortlist for Bram Stoker Award nominations. She is also a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net Award, and Indie Horror Book Award nominee. Her middle-grade fiction novel, Where Wild Beasts Grow, is forthcoming from Fitzroy Books (2022). She currently lives in Kentucky with her husband and two children.