Ami Blackwelder is a teacher and writer with a BA in English who has lived in Asia for 8 years. Her short stories and poems have been published in magazines and newspapers across the globe. She won the Best Fiction Award while acquiring her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Central Florida. She placed as a semi-finalist in the Laurel Hemingway short story contest and her work was subsequently published.


She writes historical and paranormal romance novels that focus on the forbidden aspects of passionate love where class, culture, religion, time, death, and species differences are all obstacles. Her unique characters and their awkward nuances  invoke strong emotions in readers, making them real, in spite of their fantastical nature. She creates worlds of past, present, and future with detailed scenes and descriptive images which provide a supple canvas for these original, paradoxical characters to exist.