A graduate of St. John's University (BA) and Vassar College (MA). She is retired from teaching in Bennett College and Dutchess Community College. She has twice won the Talespinner Competition sponsored by the Poughkeepsie Journal. One of the judges, Michael Korda, commented: "Has a very strong cultural appeal, and gives the reader a quick, instant understanding of Chinese values, and how they differ from our own. As well, it is simply written, perhaps the best written of all the stories here." Her short stories and essays have appeared in Prima Materia, Short Story International, CAAC Inflight Magazine, Westchester Family, Dutchess Magazine, The Country, and Dutchess Mature Life. Andover Green published one of her children’s stories in Six Inches to England: An Anthology of International Children Stories. Amy's first full length novel: A Concubine for the Family was published in 2012 and has won critical acclaim and is well received. She is working on the sequel: Under the Red Moon. Amy's recent photo essay on Josephine Fang was published in June 2014 in the 40th Anniversary magazine of the Chinese American Library Association (CALA).