Amanda LaPera is an award-winning author, speaker, teacher, and mental health advocate. In addition to poetry, she is the author of LOSING DAD, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's S...view moreAmanda LaPera is an award-winning author, speaker, teacher, and mental health advocate. In addition to poetry, she is the author of LOSING DAD, Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Family's Search for Hope (Adamo Press, 2013), the true story of how severe mental illness affects the entire family. She lives in California with her husband, sons, and dogs, and immensely enjoys sunsets.view less