AMANDA KANNO is a Japanese-American writer, who also works as a free-lance editor, proofreader, and sensitivity consultant. She homeschools her children while also pursuing a degree in English/Creative Writing, resulting in many gray hairs which she covers up every 3-4 weeks. She claims that chocolate reduces her stress levels so that her husband will continue funding her habit, but she is still experimenting with the amounts needed to make this true. She lives in Eagle Mountain with her husband, four children, a goat, a bunny, and the world’s okay-est dog.