Amy M. Hale

Amy Hale writes about the real world where things grow up out of the ground, where the miracle of life happens over and over and over again, where people can and do survive without malls or Arby's. She strives to produce something of value from a place where the bats fly, the lizards do pushups on the rocks, the bears leave barefoot prints in the dirt, the hummingbirds do rain dances in August, spiders weave for their food, and poetry is in the chrysalis and the cocoon. She believes that life is a miracle and it is demonstrated all around us in the natural world where birds build nests, cows turn our national forests into healthy beef, beavers build dams, and flowers bloom in deep canyons where no one sees.

Hale writes and rides on a ranch in Arizona.

Hale is the author of RIGHTFUL PLACE, published in 2011 by Texas Tech University Press. This collection of essays won the 2012 WILLA for creative non-fiction and the gold medallion from Foreword Book Reviews, Book of the Year for essays. Her first novel, WINTER OF BEAUTY, was released by Pen-L Publishing in October 2013, and her second, THE STORY IS THE THING, in 2014. ORDINARY SKIN : ESSAYS FROM WILLOW SPRINGS arrived in May 2017. This collection of creative non-fiction is published by TTUP.

She writes essays, poetry, fiction, and sometimes a big mixture of all three. Visit her at www.amymhale.com