Ami Blackwelder is a romance suspense writer in the paranormal,
scifi and historical genres. Growing up in Florida, she graduated UCF
and in 1997 received her BA in English and additional teaching credentials.
Then she packed her bags and travelled overseas to teach in Thailand, Nepal,
Tibet, China and Korea. Thailand is considered her second home now. She
has always loved writing and wrote poems and short stores since childhood;
however, her novels began when she was in Thailand.
Having won the Best Fiction Award from the University of Central
Florida (Yes, The Blair Witch Project University), her short fiction From Joy
We Come, Unto Joy We Return was published in the on campus literary magazine:
Cypress Dome and remains to this day in University libraries around the USA.
Later, she achieved the semi-finals in a Laurel Hemingway contest and published
a few poems in the Thailand’s Expat magazine, and an article in the Thailand’s
People newspaper. Additionally, she has published poetry in the Korea’s AIM
magazine, the American Poetic Monthly magazine and Twisted Dreams Magazine.
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