About the Author

​Amy's work has appeared in SAIL, Edible Austin, Fiction Attic, National Wildlife, Public Gardens, Texas Gardener, Eugene Weekly, Loyola, and more. She previously served as music editor at Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon's Pulitzer Prize–winning alt-weekly newspaper, and as editor of Wildflower, the magazine of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas. She is currently senior writer and editor for Trust for Public Land and managing editor of TPL's magazine, Land&People.

In addition to writing, she makes independent movies with her husband and former shipmate, Jimmie. The duo’s first feature-length production, Operation: RAVEN, premiered in association with the Austin Film Festival in 2014. Their following feature-length efforts, Beast Lover (2013), Gary and the Underworld (2018), and Work Dreams (2023), premiered at festivals from Los Angeles and Berlin to Kansas City and Moscow.

Amy holds a bachelor's in creative writing from Loyola University Chicago and a master's in geography from the University of Texas at Austin. The Box Wine Sailors is her first book.