Amanda Pillar is Australian. She co-edited the fiction anthologies Voices, Grants Pass, The Phantom Queen Awakes, Scenes from the Second Storey, Ishtar, and Damnation and Dames. Her first solo anthology was Bloodstones. The sequel, Bloodlines, won the 2015 Aurealis Awards Best Anthology. She is the author of the novel Graced, and the novella Captive. She also has had over a dozen short stories published. She won the Australian Shadows for Best Edited publication in 2010.
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