With one foot in the ocean and one foot in the mountains, Amy Reece shares her time between the Rocky Mountains and the waters off Martha’s Vineyard Island. She’s a poet, writer, and author of the published middle-grade novel Regarding Jeffrey. 

After twenty-seven years of teaching, running a therapeutic riding school, and raising a family, Amy draws from her experiences to enrich her writing with themes of struggle, grit, and hope. She’s currently working with best-selling author, Emily Colin, on the final edits her second novel, Haven’s Home.

The last six years of Amy’s teaching career were spent developing a therapeutic program for students with diagnosed emotional disabilities within the local public high school. There she led a team of support staff, teachers, counselors, and therapists in the goal of developing social emotional skills and life skills along with academic skills in order to prepare her students for graduation and life after high school. 

While teaching full time and raising a family, Amy earned a Masters in Special Education and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her students have won multiple writing awards, and Amy received recognition for her poetry at her university and through online publications.

Currently, Amy lives and writes from her home with her husband on Martha’s Vineyard Island. All three of their children are successfully launched. Her days are spent writing, gardening, riding her horse Alex, reading with her grandchildren, and attempting to sort through trunks full of family photos that somehow landed in her basement. 

Amy’s learned that building healthy relationships with young people and helping them to acquire a toolbox of strategies is key to their future success. She’ also learned that nobody really cares about all of those vacation photos you took, so do your family a favor and toss or delete them now! But do keep the old love letters and photos of handsome strangers so future generations will have something interesting to wonder about you when you are gone.