Amy is the author of 100+ books for children. Amy is delighted Caterpillar is releasing her sweet Halloween picture book, In the Witch’s House, in September, 2025. It’s a dream come true. Amy writes for both faith-based and general market publishers. Amy’s faith-based books include bath books, Noah’s Ark and The Creation, God’s Earth is Something to Fight For(Sunbeam/Bushel & Peck Books), Christian Q&A Book for Kids (Rockridge Press), and God’s Protection Covers Me (Beaming Books). Amy’s educational books include 60 retold tales for the series, Compass Children’s Classics, 2020. Her 10 nonfiction science early readers for Highlights  were also released in 2020.

In 2024, Amy won the Best Children’s Picture Book award, first place, from the Missouri Writers Guild for God’s Earth is Something to Fight For, which was sponsored by The Missouri Association of School Librarians. In 2020, God’s Protection Covers Me won the Christian Market Children’s Book of the Year, second place, and the Angel Book Award, second place. Her books, activities, and poetry have won the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, Dr. Toy Best Vacation Children’s Product Award, Missouri Writers’ Guild Walter William Major Work Award, Creative Child Magazine “Seal of Excellence” Award, and more. As a longtime member of the Missouri Writers Guild (MWG) and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI), Amy enjoys its online community and regional conferences.

Observing young children when Amy taught preschool at Head Start and as a graduate assistant in the Early Childhood Department of Northwest Missouri State University helps her to write authentically. For seven years, Amy taught the course, “Writing for Children & Teenagers,” through the Institute of Children’s Literature. 
Amy and her husband, Steve, live in rural Northwest Missouri, an hour from Steve’s family farm. Amy and Steve are the parents of two grown daughters and three grandchildren.