About
A graduate of Southwestern University, Amy earned her MA and her PhD at Texas A&M University. She is the author of She Left Nothing In Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of 19th Century Women’s Diaries
(University of Tennessee Press, 2001) and the editor of Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884 ( University of Tennessee Press 2009). She has been a regular contributor to Insidehighered.com. Building on her experiences teaching writing and her academic interest in memoir and autobiography, she developed a writing mentor practice, working with both academic and nonacademic writers. She currently lives and writes in Austin, Texas.