Amy Leach grew up in Texas and earned her MFA in nonfiction creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and numerous publications, including A Public Space, Orion, Tin House, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book was Things That Are. Leach lives in Montana.