about.
Amy Alley is a visual artist, freelance writer, author, special education teacher, and mother of a handsome young college student. In addition, she is also a certified 200 hour yoga teacher. With almost 19 years of practice as a busy solo parent, she knows what is it like to strive for balance in the throes of a full, often hectic, life - but she has learned to breath deep and embrace the flow. She has a passion for service and enjoys helping others learn to express the story they wish to tell through writing and/or art as well as helping others discover new tools for wellness and well-being. She believes that creativity, movement and mindfulness form the trifecta for an engaged, happy life. She has taught classes and workshops on portrait drawing, intuitive drawing, intuitive/meditative painting, art and movement and more. She can be reached at amialley@hotmail.com
the artist and art.
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South Carolina native Amy Alley is an award winning artist, freelance writer and author, poet, special education teacher and happy solo parent of a college freshman. She strives to bring an appreciation of her native heritage; her love for nature and wild spaces; and the invigoration of metropolitan landscapes (awakened during her years of living in Detroit, Mi) to life in her art. Ancestral, natural, and urban energy come together in her work, which is featured in public and private collections nationally and abroad. She is currently focusing on abstraction and a deep dive into the dualities of human nature.
She has worked in collaboration with Athens, Ga. based Hippocampus Designs to design a skirt featuring her art, Say Yes to Green. She was the illustrator and cover artist for Cassie Premo Steele's novel, The ReSisters. Her work was featured in the 2021 edition of We'Moon (and has been featured in previous editions of the publication as well.) Her work was also included in Patti Digh's 2013 book, The Geography of Loss. She has two poems featured in the celebrated poetry anthology, When the Virus Came Calling, released in 2020.
Alley's first novel, The Absence of Anyone Else, was published in 2010 and re-released as a second edition print with book club questions in late 2018. Her first collection of poetry, Jefferson Avenue Poems, was released in 2022.
She lives with her son in Upstate South Carolina. She is a columnist for the Index Journal Newspaper and regular contributer to SO Lakelands Magazine and Newberry Magazine.
