Amanda Fletcher

Amanda Fletcher, Beyond the Pink Ribbon Fellow

Amanda Fletcher, a 2012 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellow, is a Canadian writer who has resided in Los Angeles for over ten years. A breast cancer survivor and a pranayama breath work practitioner, Amanda teaches writing in the recovery community. She was a flash fiction finalist for the Orlando Prize and has performed for the Dirty Laundry Lit and Roar Shack reading series. Amanda’s writing has appeared in The Writer’s Tribe Review and the Orange County Register and she is currently working on her memoir about breaking her neck in a diving accident and the cervical halo she wore for four months, tentatively titled HALO “the crowning of a marginal life.” Beyond the Pink Ribbon Fellow