Amy Beth Forbes is a writer. Born and raised in Michigan, she now lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her boyfriend Xyntrix and two cats:

• "The Gardener of Hell," Flytrap #7, May 2007
• "A is for Apple," The Best of Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet: Occasional Outbursts, August 2007
• "A Bedtime Tale for the Disenchanted", Realms of Fantasy, August 2005
• "A Communion of Maggots", Ralan’s Specstravaganza, 2003, reprinted at Rose and Thorn Quarterly E-Zine, Spring 2004
• "Magnetism", Kiss Machine, Girls and Guns Issue, 2003
• "A is For Apple", Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, issue 9, November 2001

• "A Communion of Maggots", Ralan’s First Annual Grabber Contest, 2nd place, 2003
• "A is For Apple", The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Volume 15, Honorable Mention, 2002
• "Fire Water", Asimov's Undergraduate Award, Undergraduate Excellence in SF & Fantasy Writing, Honorable Mention, 2002

Amy was co-editor of Turbocharged Fortune Cookie for exactly one issue, wherein she discovered being an editor is much more difficult than it looks, and rescinded full control to the multitalented Beth Adele Long. Bless.