Amily D'Nas was born and raised in Southern New England and now calls South Florida home. She earned her MBA from the University of Massachusetts and is a member of the Women's Fiction Writer's Association and the Writer's Cafe writing group in Parkland, FL. Beneath the Swaying Willow is her debut novel which she began writing as part of a healing journey to try to understand and make peace with her father's struggle with PTSD and his soldier suicide after serving in the United States Army during the Vietnam War era.