Amanda Pauley

Amanda Pauley began writing fiction as an English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and continued through a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies degree at Hollins University. Later, Amanda returned to Hollins University, and completed the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program in 2014.

Amanda’s stories have appeared in the Press 53 Open Awards Anthologies, Cargoes, the Clinch Mountain Review, the Canyon Review, the West Trade Review, The Masters Review Anthology III, 2014, and Gravel Literary Journal. She was a 2012 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize finalist, a runner up for the 2013 Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction, the runner up in the 2013 Bevel Summers Short Short Story Contest, and the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction in 2013. She has a forthcoming publications in the Canary, Steel Toe Review, and Atticus Review.