Amanda Hitchcock
Joined: Apr 26, 2018
“It’s Hitchcock...Like Alfred.”That’s likely the response you’ll get if you ask for her name. We stilldon’t know if she’s actually related to the horror-film legend, but if sheinherited anything from her namesake, it’d be a fierce determination—and a knack for storytelling.Though she laughs as she explains that she was “born with her bags packed,” an on-the-move childhood made home a difficult place for her to define. She became accustomed to leaving things behind, and with the ability to let them go, she found that her most powerful possession was effortlessly portable: an imagination as vast as she could make it.She devoured books, finding she could travel wherever she liked as long as she continued to turn the page. She discovered how, with her hands, she could build something, anything, from nothing at all. She immersed herself in creative expression; every paper cut, brush stroke, cornered page, music note, broken string, and blank canvas became a thin, buzzing, electric line leading from one discovery to the next. Everything was a piece to a much larger puzzle, and before long, the concepts of exploration, perspective, connectivity, and empathy had embedded themselves into the very foundation of her character. This became her lens. This was the window that framed the rest of the world. This was freedom.This, she decided, was home.Today, that on-the-move childhood has transformed into an inspired wanderlust. Amanda approaches her writing with the desire to present content through the right lens; with a subtle, delicate adjustment of perspective; the critical tilt that gives way to profound and reverberating impact; an unexpected, essential, empathetic angle through which story becomes truth, individual experience becomes that of many, and a focused, pointed perception evolves to canon. It is through this practice, that a young girl, accustomed to letting things go, opens the door to a blank page, opens her mind to new possibilities, and hears the words “Welcome home.”
