About Amanda Noble

Amanda Noble has a Ph.D. in sociology and has researched and published numerous academic articles, book chapters and reports. Frustrated by the constraints of scientific writing, she turned her attention to creative non-fiction writing, especially personal essay and memoir.  Her work has appeared in Seven Hills Review, Indiana Voice, Anak Sastra, and is forthcoming in Eastern Iowa Review. She lives in Davis, California, with her cat, Lucy, where she is revising a memoir of her Peace Corps experience in the Philippines during the tumultuous 1970s.