Born on an army base in Virginia, Amy was raised in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She returned to the U.S. for college and later began freelancing out of The New York Times' D.C. bureau.

After several years of working professionally, Amy returned to school to pursue her own projects and a Master's degree in photography at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication. There, she received a Fulbright fellowship, which led her back to Morocco. Behind Walls, a portrayal of life at a rural girls' dormitory in the southern part of the country, was featured as part of an online exhibition series with Boston's Photo Resource Center.

Amy created another documentary essay in Cambodia, Peace, Violence, and Visitors, supported by a grant from the Center for Southeast Asia Studies at OU. Also while in Ohio, Amy received the Paul Schutzer Memorial Award for documentary work and was a featured photographer in National Geographic.

Her work has been published in The New York Times and The Valley News (West Lebanon, New Hampshire), where she was a staff photographer.

Amy will be teaching a street photography workshop at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston during the Spring of 2007.