Boston-bred Amy grew up spending summers on Cape Cod and exploring the West, thanks to her family’s annual cross-country road trips. Since then, she has hoofed and pedaled hundreds of miles all over the world. She graduated from Williams College, where she majored in English and Art History. After working as a business writer and PR director in Cambridge, MA, Amy fled the office to lead and research biking and hiking trips throughout the US and abroad (mostly in Italy). In 1998 she moved to Santa Fe, where she managed Outside Online for Outside magazine. Amy has worked in publishing for the past 15 years. Since 2003, she has been an Associate Publisher with Weldon Owen Publishing, where she manages and produces lifestyle cookbooks for Williams-Sonoma. An avid cook, adventurer, and Italophile, she has written about food, wine, and travel for several magazines and coauthored six guidebooks.