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About the Author

Brandy Lane has lived most of her life in Indiana and Colorado, where she resides with her husband and four children. She loves music and nature, and recently started to develop her love for writing. Always looking for a silver lining, writing became her way of painting one on even the gloomiest of thoughts. She refers to these excursions as “painting with words,” and is her way of taking the reader on a journey with her to the fantastical places that are in her mind. She loves to find hope in the melancholy, and the sunshine in the storm. Her heavy use of metaphors and analogies make her writings easy to relate to, and shows a reflection of her love of music, art, literature, and fantasy.
Brandy published her first book, Where Beautiful Loves, in December 2020 under her own imprint of Where Beautiful Inks. This book was a labor of love, as it was a collection of love letters and poems written to her muse and mentor who remains nameless at this point, but did write a response which is included in the end of the book. The book is available world-wide wherever books are sold.
Just after the release of her first book, she discovered anthologies as an option for publishing, and has since had poetry pieces included in over two dozen publications. Publications include: Poetry 365 by RDW (both abridged and unabridged editions) for November, December, January, February, March, April, May and June and special editions of Creator and Self Portrait. Red Penguin Books has published her pieces in 'Tis the Season's, The Flower Shop on the Corner, The Ocean Waves, and Bloom Magazine. Clarendon House Publications published her poems in their Poetica 2 and Poetica 3 anthologies, and her work was also included in Ink Gladiator's Press anthologies of The Rise and Fall of Chimera's and Gray, We Hide our Colors Within. Indie Blu(e) Publishing just published a mental health piece in Through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on Madness and Chaos Within, and their newest anthology But You Don’t Look Sick: The Real Life Adventures of Fibro Bitches, Lupus Warriors, and other Superheroes Battling Invisible Illness. 300 South Media Group has published her in As Darkness Falls, and features her first flash fiction piece in Sunset Rain. Train River Poetry has published her in Poetry 7. She also appears in the Who’s Who of Emerging Writers by Sweetycat Press and has several others on the horizon.
Brandy can be found online on Instagram and Facebook @wherebeautifullives and @wherebeautifulloves