Amanda McCrina is the author of the YA historical novels Traitor, I'll Tell You No Lies, Beyond Seven Forests, and The Silent Unseen which was selected as a Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Book of the Year. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she holds a BA in history and political science from the University of West Georgia. After three years of teaching English, history, and government at an international school outside Madrid, Spain, she now lives outside Nashville, Tennessee, where she works as a bookseller.