About

Amanda Cherry is a wife and mom, an actor, and an author loving life in the suburbs of Seattle, WA. She’s an alumnus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas whose biggest claim to fame is having once co-starred with a Gecko in an insurance commercial.

As a queer, disabled author of urban & contemporary fantasy, space opera, and role play games, Amanda is drawn to stories that center people whose experiences and points of view are too often erased. She loves magic, mayhem, clever villains, unlikely love stories, and marginalized folx coming into their own power.

As of August 2024, Amanda has seen seven books published along with numerous pieces of short and flash fiction and pop culture nonfiction. She was on the writing team for the tabletop role play game Acute Paranoia, is an award-winning screenwriter, and was a finalist in the 2018 NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. She was a story consultant to the SyFy Docu-series Looking for Leia in which she was also an on-camera participant.

Amanda is a giant nerd, an avid tabletop gamer, and a fixture of sci-fi, fantasy, and comic book conventions across the country.  She is a cast member on the live-play Dungeons & Dragons stream: Dungeon Scrawlers and spends a great deal of her free time gaming with friends.

Amanda has contributed to geek culture sites Tosche Station, Eleven-ThirtyEight, and Star Trek.com and has been featured in the Hugo-nominated fanzine Journey Planet. For fun she enjoys sailing, skating, and playing music.

She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, SFWA and Broad Universe.