Ametra S. Rayford is an award-winning author who was born in Chicago, Illinois. Though she toils as a Certified Pharmacy Technician by day, she can be found writing at almost every other spare moment, and usually on every available surface.

An avid reader and amateur chef, she enjoys cooking for friends and family when not buried in projects consisting of 75,000 words or more. Ametra's literary world is set to music, and everything she writes has its own unofficial soundtrack

DUALITY, her debut novel, is a 2019 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist.