Author Bio
Amanda Leigh Munson, or A. L. Munson, is a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association and the Horror Writers Association. She was a nominee for the 2025 Brave New Weird Awards from Tenebrous Press. Her work has appeared in/on PseudoPod, MetaStellar, Creepy Podcast‘s Patreon, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and the anthologies Once Upon a Moonless Night (The Brothers Uber) and Seers and Sibyls (Brigids Gate Press). She is currently querying agents for her first novel while writing her second.
Munson is from the small town of St. Rose, Louisiana and is a tribal member of the Vancleave Live Oak Choctaw of Mississippi. Her Choctaw name is Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli, meaning “Morning Rainbow.” She is aro/ace, neurodivergent, and a stubborn Luddite.
Aside from Louisiana, Munson has lived in the Czech Republic, Romania, New York, and Kansas and has held every job title from criminal defense paralegal to archivist. She is now back in the New Orleans area where she works as a law librarian, majors in physics, and practices archery and photography in her free time.
