Amy was born in Texas to parents who taught her to love books and the natural world. She married a working ranch cowboy when she was 19, raising her children on cow camps all over West Texas and New Mexico. Living at the end of long dirt roads without telephone or television helped her cultivate her storytelling skills via long letters to friends and family... and always, she read books. Her writing career began in the mid-90s with the publication of first person humorous essays in western magazines. She moved to Arizona in 2008 to be with her new love, Gail Steiger, of Spider Ranch in Yavapai County. Cowboying on the Spider became the ink and inspiration for her pen.

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She is mother to Oscar and Lily,

grandmother to Clint and Kamber.

 

Amy is the author of several books... creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She and Gail spend many nights out of the year sleeping on the ground in remote camps, cooking over an open fire, and gathering cattle in the rough terrain of the Santa Maria Mountains. While Amy writes about the specific places she inhabits, she inspires audiences and readers to find and inhabit their own places in the world. Her distinct voice is infused by flash and slam, and her innate ability to distill ideas appeals to those who are aspiring to dwell in the sacred everyday, or longing to leave behind that which is safe but small.