About Me

 Amy grew up in Queens, New York, in a garden apartment community loaded with other kids and plenty of trees to climb and places to run around in. When she wasn’t climbing and running and hanging upside down from the monkey bars, she had her head in a book. She started writing stories of her own early in her teen years and hasn’t stopped since. She went to school at SUNY Binghamton and, later, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. During these years she studied creative writing, as well as many other things. She found herself becoming more and more interested in science, nature studies, and philosophy. Elements of these show up in her writing all the time.  

At Iowa she was given the opportunity to teach and she found it exhilarating. Upon her return to New York, she finished a degree in teaching and set forth to make her fortune.

Eventually she settled down in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn where she has lived for over thirty years, raising two sons, teaching pre-K, grade school, and college, slowly writing books, and keeping company with her tenant lawyer husband. She lives right down the block from Prospect Park where she has had many great adventures, some of which show up in her stories.

 She has always had animal housemates (cats, fish, parrots, one rabbit, two dogs), all of whom have played central roles in keeping her sane, giving her joy, and reliably lending support and encouragement while she writes. (Except for the parrot who would steal the keys off her computer when she wasn’t looking.)

Amy is now retired from teaching and has high hopes for continuing to write, walking around Prospect Park, putting together memorable dinners with friends, doing some traveling, and brushing up on her Spanish.

She is doing all she can to reduce her carbon footprint and hopes you are, too.

Amy has published numerous short stories and two novels for grown-ups, At the Sign of the Naked Waiter and The Happiness Code. She has also published one picture book for children, Kimbo’s Marble, as well as two novels for middle-graders, The Time Fetch and (soon to arrive), The Tiltersmith.

She’s been anthologized in Editor’s Choice—Best Short Stories 1987, The Random Review, Tri-Quarterly Ficiton of the 80’s and O’Henry Best Short Stories 1992