Amy Lou Jenkins

Amy Lou Jenkins is an award-winning and bestselling author, speaker, teacher, and former registered nurse whose work explores voice, identity, belonging, family patterns, inherited assumptions, and the stories we must unravel in order to live with greater intention.

Before turning more fully toward writing, Amy Lou spent years in nursing, moving from direct care into leadership and teaching roles. That background shaped her lifelong interest in how people survive, make meaning, tell the truth, and care for one another across difficulty. She holds an MFA in Literature and Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

She is the author of five nonfiction books: Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting, Friends, Corners, Single Scull Rowing, and The Alchemy of Sass: A Memoir of Becoming and Belonging, forthcoming Spring 2027. Her essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of literary, parenting, environmental, and regional publications, and her work has received multiple honors, including the Ellis/Henderson Outdoor Writing Award, a Living Now Book Award Gold Medal, and recognition from literary contests and journals.

In The Alchemy of Sass, Amy Lou examines the lies, secrets, inherited assumptions, and family patterns that shaped her before she knew she was being shaped. Her work invites readers to consider how gender roles, silence, absence, power, and love shape families across generations, and how reflection, writing, empathy, and truth-telling can help us build more humane lives.

Listeners can explore their own lives through journaling with Amy Lou at her Facebook Author Hub: https://www.facebook.com/AmyLouJenkinsAuthorHub.

They can also download a copy of Every Natural Fact and read more at AmyLouJenkins.com.

Amy Lou Jenkins helps others find their voice.