Amy Lukavics
American writer
Amy Lukavics is an American author of young adult horror novels, best known for her debut novel Daughters Unto Devils and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated The Ravenous.
Personal life
Lukavics was raised in Northern Arizona.
Lukavics says that she has always been intrigued by books and horror movies starting from a young age, but never considered becoming a writer because it seemed impossible to her. She especially loved the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series by Alvin Schwartz and the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King.
During middle school, she contemplated becoming an editor or a journalist for two months, but never tried to get the scholarships she would've needed in order to pursue a career path like that. She attended Prescott High School and graduated in 2006. After graduation, she worked as a dental assistant and as a front office medical assistant.
When she was 19, after she got let go from her medical assistant job, she first developed the idea of wanting to become a writer when sitting in a library. She started writing her first novel the next day. Lukavics never attended college, saying that she didn't feel passionately enough about any field to justify spending money on studying it.
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