Amanda McCrina was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She was homeschooled through high school and graduated summa cum laude from the University of West Georgia with a BA in history and political science. After three years of teaching secondary English and history at an international school outside Madrid, Spain, she now lives in Franklin, Tennessee, where she works as a bookseller. She is the author of the YA WWII novels TRAITOR (FSG, 2020) and the forthcoming THE SILENT UNSEEN (FSG, 2021).