Amy lives somewhere between the punchline and the footnote, where serious questions and ridiculous circumstances tend to collide. She experiments, investigates, occasionally rants, and keeps looking for ways to make complicated things more understandable—and a little more entertaining.

She brings a writer's ear, a performer's sense of timing, a researcher's curiosity, and a freelancer's willingness to figure things out. Finding story in the sprawling pile of information and emotion, she can always take a perfectly respectable concept and make it considerably more interesting. In multimedia formats!

With a healthy suspicion of anything that claims to be “simple”, she's particularly at home with big ideas, messy realities, unconventional projects, and people who don't fit neatly into a box. She is not, however, at all comfortable with the elimination of the Oxford comma, and remains in a longstanding war with autocorrect.

About Me

Recent Projects

Book Writing

Podcasting Research

Like many people, I wrote and published my first book during the pandemic, taking a dark comedy turn through the personal and global impacts. Through a mix of policy analysis, social commentary, and creative storytelling, fact meets fiction in purpose-crafted characters and questions for our challenging times.

Because I'd worked as a freelance writer for small, woman-owned businesses, I was familiar with blogs, newsletters, web pages, and programs and product descriptions. But with the book, I returned to my creative writing origins while learning additional types of editing and formatting software, delving into the soup-to-nuts of self-publishing.

Joining forces with a fellow freelancer, we explored tech old and new for podcast creation. Methods of recording, editing, and distributing battered us with both hope and despair. Casting a wide net in time- and knowledge-intensive tests as total newbies prepped us with fresh skill sets, but appalled us at the actual time and dollar cost.

Advertised as easy and cheap, we found it no such thing, especially for those doing two- and three-person remote podcasts. We had to report a reality back that was way beyond the original business model and budget of the clients and brainstorm alternate methods of creating and distributing their material.

AI Testing

So much hype, such valid concerns; it's all there. But mostly, even a brief pass through the models available beg for specific use cases as their most effective application. And the importance for writers in understanding how AI has to be used with caution if they want to monetize their work, or claim copyright, cannot be overstated.

I'm frequently told how little value I posses now that AI can write everything; you might have your own fears about your line of work, too. Yet the need for human oversight, particularly in editing and validating sources of information, still apply. And what strikes me as often inefficient in our promised insta-content and quick answers is the demand on someone's time to train the agent for specificity of tone or task, and correct the bonkers bits as they fly in. It's still a thinky person's task to monitor and adjust that flow.

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