Amanda K. Hale

Born in England, she emigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She studied at Concordia University and received an M.A. in Creative Writing Drama.{{cite web|url=http://49thshelf.com/Contributors/H/Hale-Amanda |title=Amanda Hale |publisher=49th Shelf |access-date=April 3, 2016}} Now she divides her time between Toronto and British Columbia, the UK and Cuba. "As a creative person, Hale has travelled back and forth between visual art, theatre, and writing."{{cite journal|last=Busheikin|first=Laura|title=A Writer's Curiosity|journal=InFocus Magazine|issue=Oct–Nov 2009|url=http://www.infocusmagazine.ca/2009/a-writers-curiosity/}} Her first novel, Sounding the Blood, was "a finalist for the BC Relit Awards"{{cite web|title=About the Author - Amanda Hale|url=https://alllitup.ca/contributors/H/Hale-Amanda|publisher=All Lit Up}} and was included in NOW Magazine's Top Ten books for 2001,{{cite web|title=Amanda Hale|url=http://www.abcbookworld.com/view_author.php?id=1554|publisher=ABC Book World}} has been on several university reading lists in Canada, the U.S., and in Europe; and has been adapted as a screenplay. Her writing has been published in numerous Canadian and American literary magazines, and two of her books have been translated into Spanish.

Hale has been active in the arts and writing community as a co-founder of Red Tree visual arts (1989); as a member of the Broadside feminist collective{{cite news|title=Members of Broadside Collective|url=http://broadsidefeminist.com/index.php/collective-members|work=Broadside: A Feminist Review}} (1982–88); as vice-president of the Hornby Island Arts Council,{{cite web|title=HIAC's Upcoming Annual General Meeting|url=https://hornbyislandartscouncil.wordpress.com/page/2/|publisher=Hornby Island Arts Council}} and as a board member of the Hornby Island Festival Society.{{cite web|title=Hornby Festival and Art Show Opening Reception|url=http://www.hornbyfestival.bc.ca/archives/2006hornbyfestival.html|publisher=The Hornby Island Festival Society}}

• Sounding the Blood, 2001, Raincoast Books
• The Reddening Path, 2007, Thistledown Press. A Spanish edition, El Sendero Encarnado was launched in July 2008 by Verdecielo Ediciones{{cite web|url=http://www.verdecielo.com/verdecielo_en.html |title=El sendero encarnado |publisher=Verdecielo Ediciones |access-date=April 3, 2016}} and presented at the Guadalajara International Book Fair in November 2008.
• My Sweet Curiosity, 2009, Thistledown Press - Long-listed for the 2010 ReLit Award for Fiction{{cite web|title=My Sweet Curiosity|url=http://www.thistledownpress.com/html/search/Authors/Amanda_Hale/my_sweet_curiosity_p273.cfm?CFID=6af55d8b-f7de-43a8-af6e-be5379d93e7f&CFTOKEN=0|publisher=Thistledown Press}}
• Mad Hatter, 2019, Guernica Editions

• The Medical Show{{Cite journal|last=Scott|first=Shelley|date=1997|title=Collective Creation and the Changing Mandate of Nightwood Theatre|url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7129|journal=Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches Théâtrales Au Canada|volume=18|issue=2}}
• Re-production

• In the Embrace of the Alligator (Collection of short fiction), 2011, Thistledown Press. A Spanish edition: En Brazos del Caimán{{cite web|title=En brazos del caimán|url=http://www.spanishbooks.ca/product/En-brazos-del-caiman|publisher=Toronto's Spanish Books}}

• "Death of Pedro Ivan",{{cite journal|title=PRISM Nonfiction contest|journal=PRISM International|date=2008|issue=Previous PRISM contest winners|url=http://prismmagazine.ca/previous-prism-contest-winners/}} Creative Non-Fiction Winner for Prism International, 2008
• "Senora Amable Ponce",{{cite journal|title=Congratulations to the 2010 Open Season Awards Winners|journal=The Malahat Review|issue=Congratulations to the 2010 Open Season Awards Winners|pages=In creative nonfiction|url=http://www.malahatreview.ca/contests/open_season/2010_winner.html}} Creative Non-Fiction Finalist for The Malahat Review, 2009

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