Amanda Filippelli

AMANDA is an internationally recognized editor, writer, book coach, artist, and chief architect and advisor for many women authorpreneurs. After completing her degree work at both Roosevelt University and Western Michigan University, and graduating with a top five honorary degree, she started her career as an associate editor for the Oyez Review in Chicago. Amanda has studied under a number of industry titans, including Stuart Dybek and Melissa Pritchard. An award-winning writer herself and publishing industry expert, Amanda has done it all from freelance to copy editing to content editing to ghostwriting and book coaching to previously serving as Editor-in-Chief for One Idea Press. Amanda specializes in helping writers realize their authentic voice and thrive as working authors.

Amanda’s work has also been widely published and featured, including in Barzakh Magazine, TEDxWomenPittsburgh, The Bunker Review, Public Source, NPR, VICE, WHIRL Magazine, and more. She was the recipient of Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40Under40 award, and is the founder of Pittsburgh’s first premier writers’ conference, The Authorpreneur Conference.

Amanda is also the host of Write to Heal workshops, where she helps people connect and heal through the power of storytelling. Before becoming a professional writer, Amanda worked in the mental healthcare system for ten years, teaching adolescent survivors of trauma how to take control of their narrative. Amanda continues this work through her writing, art, workshops, the Inkwell School of Writers, and as a book coach.

Amanda is the author of Blue Rooms, a book of poetry that was adapted for the stage and received with critical acclaim. She is also the author of The Remembering Room, a book of prose and poetry that was made into an interactive art installation that exhibited at Atithi Studios in the spring of 2023. And she is the creator of The Writer’s Tarot, a deck of tarot cards that honor literary heroes and conventions, and that offer unlimited creative prompts through its spreads. Amanda believes in creating experiences out of Art, and is currently querying her literary fiction novel, Lionfish, as well as a nonfiction grimoire for writers called Creation Magick.