Ashley Renee Lynch is from a small town in Indiana where there is little to do but write. She began writing Cutting Out the Pain in high school and continues to write poetry now, in hopes of publishing a second book. In her spare time she enjoys reading, of course, and spending ungodly amounts of time at the library, where she works. Here is a list of her favorite books: Children  Underland Chronicles - Collins Percy Jackson & the Olympians series - Riordan Rare Beasts (Edgar & Ellen) Bad Beginning - Snicket Dark Hills Divide - Carson Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls Where the Red Fern Grows - Rawls Young Adult Warrior Heir - Chima Earthsea Trilogy Lush - Friend True Colors Series - Carlson Sci Fi/Fantasy Demons Don't Dream - Anthony Harry Potter - Rowling King in the Window - Gopnik Cirque du Freak - Shan Meg - Alten Next - Crichton Jurassic Park - Crichton Congo - Crichton Non-Fiction Wildly Romantic: the Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous Prozac Nation - Wurtzel Poetry William Wordsworth George Gordon Emily Dickinson Percy Shelley Samuel Coleridge Mystery And Then There Were None - Christie Hannah Swenson - Fluke General Lit. Dollanganger series - Andrews Stephanie Plum series - Evanovich Five People You Meet in Heaven - Albot Jane Eyre - C. Bronte Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde Bell Jar - Plath Blood Countess - Codrescu Animal Farm - Orwell Anthem - Rand Long Road Home - Steele Wuthering Heights - E. Bronte