Fiesta of Fear

About Amy Bennett

Amy M. Bennett was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She is a 1985 graduate of Father Yermo High School and attended the University of Texas-El Paso. In 1988, she married her husband, Paul, and moved to Alamogordo, New Mexico, where she attended New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, and, except for a six-month stint in Mt. Kisco, New York, has been a resident of New Mexico ever since.

She currently works as a cake decorator with Walmart in Alamogordo, New Mexico, after twelve years in the Ruidoso Downs store (this is her nineteenth year with Walmart) and a "vino slinger" with Noisy Water Winery in Ruidoso, New Mexico, for the last six years. She has been a "closet" novelist for over twenty years and has an impressive collection of rejection letters to show for it! End of the Road started as a project for National Novel Writing Month in 2009; it won the Oak Tree Press 2012 Dark Oak Mystery contest. Her first and second books in the series, End of the Road and No Lifeguard on Duty, were both awarded The Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval.

She and Paul currently reside in Bent, New Mexico, with their son, Paul Michael, who grew up believing that having a mother who writes mystery novels is normal.