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Amanda Lewis
Amanda West Lewis

AMANDA WEST LEWIS is a writer, theatre creator, calligrapher and teaching artist who grew up in New York City and Toronto. She has published eight books for young readers and holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts, with a specialist certificate in writing picture books. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the Ottawa Children’s Theatre, where she teaches and runs drama programs for children and youth. Her latest middle grade novel is These Are Not the Words (Groundwood Books). Amanda lives with her husband, writer Tim Wynne-Jones, in the woods outside Perth, Ontario.