Amanda Mander - Creative Non-fiction, Personal
Growth
Amanda Mander was born in Indonesia and has
lived in various locales around the world before settling on Bainbridge
Island. Her first book
Secret Histories: Stories of Courage,
Risk and Revelation (2013) is an anthology that includes several
Bainbridge authors. The book explores pivotal experiences in the lives of each
contributor - ranging from a pilgrimage to Tibet to the grief and joy of being
a dying brother's caretaker. The writings help readers navigate their own way through difficult
situations, and provide insights into what it means to transcend our greatest
challenges. In her second book
Looking Twice: Beautiful Ugly (2015),
Mander teamed up with artist Deanna Marsh to explore the idea that beauty and
ugliness are two sides of the same coin. Readers are encouraged to look
at their surroundings and find both ugliness in beauty and beauty in ugliness.
For more information about this writer go to
writerarmander.com.
