Amanda Swallow

Amanda has experience in working with local independent magazines. She has been published and worked with Marquee Magazine, a local arts and entertainment magazine focused on the Northwest Ohio region. Amanda has also been published and worked with, Flesh from Ashes, a local independent political and arts magazine. In her senior year of high school she mentored with the Lima Newspaper, she worked in page layout, editing, and feature reporting. She was also the lead feature reporter for her high school newspaper.

Apart from her writing experience, she also has experience in photography, photo editing. She is a co-owner of a studio under the name of Vivid Visions in downtown Findlay, Ohio. Working towards becoming commercial, for now she works with aspiring models, to help build their portfolios and hers as well. Having done quite a bit of modeling herself for other art and fashion photographers, it gives her an edge to help those that model for her, to teach them in posing and making great photos. Amanda is experienced in working with Photoshop CS4, and Premiere CS4. Her skills in photography have been mostly self-taught, and learned from working with other more experienced photographers.

In her spare time she enjoys a variety of hobbies and passions. She enjoys gardening, camping, hiking, cooking, movies, reading fiction, traveling, family and friends. She also enjoys taking care of her six little buddies, her cats, and spending time with her husband.

Years of interest and curiosity have led Amanda to study and research extensively upon these subjects , which she enjoys writing about: Mysticism of all major religions, Kabbalah, Tarot and Astrology, Occultism, rituals and rites of various religions, symbolism in religion, the Crusades, Gnosticism, all major religions, meditation, yoga, Western Esotericism, Freemasonry, Secret Societies, Egyptians, and the progression of human spiritual development from primitive times to present day.