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The Story Behind Clean Amy Reed: An Interview with the Author



Amy Reed first joined ELI as a law clerk in 2012, then returned as a Staff Attorney in 2016. In 2021 she was promoted to Senior Attorney. She works primarily on domestic law and policy topics, focusing on ocean and coastal protection and restoration, advancing natural infrastructure solutions, and cooperative federalism and intergovernmental coordination. Amy also works with the Institute's Indoor Environments and Green Buildings Program to strengthen policies and programs to reduce indoor air risks. Prior to joining ELI, Amy clerked for Ventura Coastkeeper in California and worked in Ecuador on a campaign to clean up oil pollution in the Amazon basin. Amy graduated magna cum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in Spanish and holds a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.


Amy Reed is the award-winning author of eleven books for young adults, including THE BOY AND GIRL WHO BROKE THE WORLD, BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN and THE NOWHERE GIRLS, which was optioned for a TV series by Amazon. Amy also edited the anthology OUR STORIES, OUR VOICES, which includes personal essays from top YA authors about their experiences growing up female in America. Her most recent book, the psychological thriller TELL ME MY NAME, is a near-future, gender-swapped retelling of THE GREAT GATSBY. She also co-wrote the memoir UNCULTURED by Daniella Mestyanek Young and is currently working on her first novel for adults. You can find her online at amyreedfiction.com and on social media @amyreedfiction.




Clean Amy Reed




Amy Reed is a renowned American author, who is popular for writing short stories, literature & fiction, and young adult novels. She is particularly famous for writing the Invincible series of novels. Author Reed is known to have written numerous successful standalone novels in her career. She was born and brought up in Seattle, United States. By the time author Reed reached the age of 18, she had already changed a total of 8 schools. She did not have any option, but to keep changing places. However, the constant moving taught Reed being restless. As she was the only kid of her parents, she had the freedom of imagining and doing funny things. Author Reed had a short stint at the Reed College, after which she shifted to San Francisco. There she spent the next few years of her life serving coffee. In the meantime, she enrolled herself at a film school, but after graduating, she decided that this art form is of no use to her. Therefore, she thought it would be better for her to return to her original love of writing. Subsequently, author Reed obtained her MFA from the New College in California. Reed lived for a period of 13 years in the Bay Area of San Francisco. And currently, she resides in western North Carolina mountains along with her loving husband, a daughter, and a pet dog. The short works of author Reed have appeared in several literary journals such as Contrary, Mission at Tenth, Kitchen Sink, and Fiction. Reed is the writer of contemporary, gritty young adult novels Crazy, Damaged, Beautiful, Clean, and Over You. All these books were published by the Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse publication. In addition to these, author Reed has also written a 2 book series called Invincible. The books of this series were released by the Harper Collins/Katherine Tegen publication. Author Reed has finished writing another novel titled The Nowhere Girls. She is expected to release this novel later in 2017. In this latest novel, author Reed has described the story of 3 misfit girls, who begin an underground movement for avenging the rape of one of their classmates. Besides this book, author Reed is also busy editing an anthology. During her spare times, Reed likes to indulge herself in reading, cooking, running, eating, hanging out with her loving husband named Brian, gardening, making lists, and helping out her daughter Elouise in her studies. 2ff7e9595c


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