Amanda Auchter is the editor of Pebble Lake Review and the author of Light Under Skin (Finishing Line Press, 2006).  She is the recipient of the 2005 Milton Kessler Memorial Poetry Prize from Harpur Palate and the 2005 James Wright Poetry Award from Mid-American Review.  Her poetry appears in AGNI Online, Born Magazine, Columbia Poetry Review, Crab Orchard Review, North American Review and elsewhere.  She is an MFA candidate at Bennington College and at work on her first full-length collection, Illuminati.