Amanda Westlake is a full-time creative living in Los Angeles, California (but her heart is forever in the American south). Her day job is senior graphic designer for a nonprofit, but at night she chases whatever project is currently consuming her: crocheting tiny dinosaurs, doing fantasy photography in the great outdoors, making rubber stamps, critiquing films, baking pies, designing newspapers and magazines, and writing books for both middle-graders and young adults. Find her at wallflowergarden.com.