Amy Leach grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in Orion, A Public Space, Granta, Tin House, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and numerous other publications. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Things That Are, published by Milkweed Editions, and The Everybody Ensemble, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Leach lives in Montana.