Amanda Ann

Baltimore County, Maryland native Amanda Ann is what you might call a reluctant author. Originally from the Nottingham area, she grew up in the Hereford Zone in White Hall. In her younger days, people would constantly tell her, “You should be a writer.” Of course, they also said, “You should train horses for the Olympics,” and “You should go into computers.” And so, she did everything but publish her writing, because she wanted to do what she wanted when she wanted, not what anyone said she should do. She lives to be contrary, and wants to be the Diana Trent of her old age home – tearing out of the gravel drive in a bright red Porsche convertible on an adventure to right wrongs.

Finally, after years of horse riding and training, traveling with world-renowned musicians, studying sugar sculpture under Certified Master Pastry Chef Jan Bandula, and of course, building and fixing computers, Amanda Ann has become a mainstream published author with "Tigers Don't Take Naps". But only because she wanted to, not because she was told to. So there.