Amy M. Hughes is an international award winning author. She writes stories that feature emotionally powerful, atmospherically palpable worlds. Amy was born in Provo, Utah, the first American child of a Canadian family. She was raised in Alberta, Canada, surrounded by prairie while dreaming of mountains and trees. Too many forested fantasy novels may have had something to do with that. She learned to read early and moved from The Hardy Boys in first grade to Tolkien by the forth. She developed a deep love of reading that has sporadically spilled into a need to write, on and off for many years. In 2008, at the insistence of her husband, Amy attended Orson Scott Card's Literary Boot Camp. She learned more in one week about how to tell a good story than she had in the first 2 years of her English degree. Amy has been a factory line worker, a veterinary technician, a missionary, an herbalist, a landscape designer, and a stay-at-home mom. She has also eaten fire, jumped off a third story balcony, and crashed in a hot air balloon.