Amanda Hollander

Amanda Hollander

Amanda Hollander is the author of Petra, forthcoming from Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.  She was the recipient of the inaugural Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Student Writer Scholarship and the 2014 SCBWI-LA Sue Alexander Grant.  The manuscript for her first novel, Kudzu, won the Shirley Collier Prize for Fiction in 2012.  Amanda lives and works in Los Angeles where, in addition to her creative work, she currently is completing her dissertation, “The Fabian Child: English and American Literature and Socialist Reform, 1884-1914,” at the University of California, Los Angeles. Honorary Contributor