Amanda K. Hale is a Canadian writer and daughter of Esoteric Hitlerist James Larratt Battersby.
[1] 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.
"[2] Her first novel, Sounding the Blood, was "a finalist for the BC Relit Awards"[3] and was included in NOW Magazine's Top Ten books for 2001,[4] has been on several university reading lists[2] 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.