Amy is a published poet, author, artist, and nature lover hailing from Middle Tennessee, where she lives with her husband and two children, and constantly dreams of someday visiting the landscapes of her Celtic and Germanic heritage. She has big dreams of using words, poetry, and story in a way that can bring healing to people, specifically to women who have experienced trauma.
She can't watch a fantasy movie or sci-fi show without wanting to write a critical paper on it. She finds her soul connection in nature and loves to stand barefoot in the grass under the light of the full moon.
Amy recently completed the Certificate in Theopoetics and Theological Imagination at Bethany Theological Seminary and is currently working toward ordination in the Church of the Nazarene. Her published poetry collections are Baptism: On Sinking and Rising, and STAY WITH ME: poems from a year of beauty and ashes. Her current works-in-progress include Goodbye Brutal Romance: Rewriting the Damaging Messages of Purity Culture, a mixed-media and found poetry series that deconstructs purity culture by rewriting damaging messages into poems of hope and healing; and a YA dystopian series.