Amanda Mander

Amanda Mander is a memoirist, nature writer, and dabbling artist whose work spans multiple publications and books. Her latest book, Wild Kin: Embracing Our Animal Family describes her ten year journey volunteering in wild animal reserves and wild places across five continents. Her Young Adult book, Wild Rescues: Amazing Stories from a Wildlife Shelter, casts teenagers as rescuers while weaving in lessons on co-living with wild creatures. Looking Twice: Beautiful Ugly, a poetry and photography collection co-authored with Deanna Marsh, explores how a second look can uncover beauty in what we dismiss as ugly, and unease in what we call beautiful. Her work also appears in the anthologies, Secret Histories: Stories of Courage, Risk, and Revelation, and Nothing Stays As It Was: Stories of Transformation. Read her thoughtful essays weekly at her Substack: Wild Kin News.