Amanda Castro-Crist is a journalist, storyteller and graduate student. Her work has appeared in Texas Tech Today, M Magazine, the Amarillo Globe-News, Amarillo Magazine, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, The Daily Toreador, The Hub@TTU, The Ranger and the AC Current.
She is a media relations specialist in Texas Tech University’s Office of Communications & Marketing. She graduated from Texas Tech with a bachelor’s degree in journalism in May 2018 and is completing a master’s degree in creative writing.
Amanda lives in Lubbock with her husband, a niece, a nephew, her mother and an unruly Shih Tzu.
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