Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature and a Language Arts/Literature teacher at Learning Prep School in West Newton, MA. She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was fourteen years old. She has published a new young adult novel every subsequent year since her first and has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town. Atwater-Rhodes attended University of Massachusetts Amherst and later graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a double-major in English and psychology. She attended Northeastern University for her MAT. On February 26 and 27, 2009, she announced on her blog that she was engaged to her partner, Mandi McCrensky, of two years. The two were married on July 4, 2010 and were married for five years. On December 2, 2015, in a blog post, Atwater-Rhodes confirmed that the divorce became official on November 1, 2015. Amelia is now in a relationship with Shira Gaudet. In 2013, Atwater-Rhodes converted to Judaism. She also has a daughter, Rebecca "Becks," born in 2014 and a son, Michael, born 2018.