Amelia Townsend has spent most of her life living throughout Virginia and North Carolina. She has worked as a newspaper and TV reporter, freelance producer and director, writer, and now PR hack. She is the author of four produced plays for Shoestring Theatre Company. Townsend is a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Townsend’s most impressive accomplishments are her children — a son and daughter — who managed to turn into fine young adults, despite her attempts to raise them. Her first novel, Keepsakes for the Heart, was nominated by the N.C. Historical Association for the prestigious Ragan Old North State Award for non-fiction.