Amy Ferris

Author, writer, screenwriter, editor and playwright. Her memoir, Marrying George Clooney, Confessions From a Midlife Crisis (Seal Press) was adapted into an Off-Broadway play in 2012.Amy has written for both the small screen (TV) and the big screen (Feature Films).As a screenwriter, she co-wrote Mr. Wonderful (Director, Anthony Minghella) and was nominated for a Best Screenplay Award (BET, Black Reel Award) for her adaptation of the film, Funny Valentines (Director, Julie Dash)In 2019, she was named one of Women's eNews 21 LEADERS FOR THE 21st CENTURY. In 2021, she was a recipient of NextTribe's The 12 Women Who Changed the World, and in 2022, Amy was awarded and honored by the National Thoughtful Book Festival as Inspirational Woman in Media. Amy serves on a variety of advisory boards supporting women and the Arts. She co-founded The Milford Readers & Writers Festival and is on faculty at The Kauai Writers' Conference. Her new memoir, Mighty Gorgeous - A Little Book About Messy Love, was published Fall 2023 (SheWritesPress).​ Her new book, Amy In Retrograde (With a foreword by Marta F. Kauffman), will be published in April 2026 by Glitterati Publishers.