Amanda Nowlin-O’Banion is a prose writer whose work has appeared in Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Vandal, Liars’ League NYC, and The Dallas Morning News, among others. Awards include a Barbara Deming Award for feminist artists and the TEX Emerging Writer Award. Amanda has a MFA in Fiction from New York University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Houston. She currently teaches creative writing at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas where she is also a reluctant beekeeper. She is completing a collection of essays on beekeeping and motherhood tentatively titled, The Queen.