Amanda Cockrell Explained

Amanda Cockrell is an American author and academic at Hollins University, a private women's university in Virginia, United States. She has written historical novels under the pseudonym Damion Hunter.

Academic career

Amanda Cockrell co-founded the children's literature graduate program at Hollins University in 1992, along with R.H.W. Dillard, and was director of the program until she retired from it. Since then, she has been managing editor of The Hollins Critic, a position she holds .^[1]

Writing career

Cockrell is the author of a number of historical novels for adults, some written under her own name and some under the pseudonym Damion Hunter. She has written novels about the Romans and about the indigenous peoples of the Americas.^[2]

Her first young adult novel, What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay, was published in 2011 and was named one of the best children's books of the year by The Boston Globe.^[3]

Selected bibliography

As Amanda Cockrell

• Legions of the Mist, 1979
• Pomegranate Seed, 2002
• What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay, 2011

The Deer Dancers

• Daughter of the Sky, 1995
• Wind Caller's Children, 1996
• The Long Walk, 1996

The Horse Catchers

• When the Horses Came, 1999
• Children of the Horse, 2000
• The Rain Child, 2001

As Amanda Cockrell "writing as Damion Hunter"

• The Wall at the Edge of the World, 2020

(sequel to Legions of the Mist)

• The Border Wolves, 2021

(fourth book in The Centurions series)

As Damion Hunter

The Centurions Trilogy

• The Centurions, 1981
• Barbarian Princess, 1982
• The Emperor's Games, 1984

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amanda Cockrell . Hollins University . 31 July 2023 . 5 September 2024.
2. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/amanda-cockrell/ Amanda Cockrell at Fantastic Fiction
3. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2011/12/18/best-year-for-children/aJV5t3cLrIdP7lZ6N5PDzJ/story.html "For children: Best books of the year" by Liz Rosenberg