Amy Robertson (later Scripps) was born on the East Coast. Her father was city planner of Pittsburgh, PA in the late 60s, attempting to rebuild that city’s notorious ghettos. Her mother abruptly died of cancer when she was seven, and the family moved to Boulder, Colorado, where Amy spent her remaining school years.

At the urging of a 5^th grade teacher, Amy decided to pursue writing as a career. She won her first writing prize of $100 in high school, for a surreal nonfiction account of her mother’s last Christmas at home. Amy has worked as a professional writer in various capacities ever since, usually bringing in slightly larger paychecks than her first one from the Boulder Daily Camera newspaper.

From a Senior Reporter post at her college newspaper, Amy moved to a junior copywriting position at J. Walter Thompson Advertising in Manhattan. As a copywriter, she was nominated for an Addy and won a Utah Art Directors Award for her “Go Full Tilt” campaign for Snowbird Ski Resort.

Amy later left advertising to begin work on a screenplay. While completing her first script, entitled “High Rise,” she worked for the Sundance Institute in Sundance, Utah, later serving as the Press Liaison for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. In this post, Amy assisted national press including David Ansen, Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin and worked with filmmakers such as Robert Altman, Stephen Soderberg and Michael Moore.

Amy’s first screenplay won her entry to Columbia University’s graduate film program in the School of the Arts, and she gladly returned to New York. There she collaborated with classmates such as Kimberly Pierce (Boys Don’t Cry), James Mangold (Walk the Line) and Courtney Hunt (Frozen River.) Her thesis short film won prizes at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Boston Film Festival and the Houston Worldfest. Studying under Paul Schrader, Michael Hausman, Ralph Rosenblum and Chris Kazan, she ultimately landed an MFA in film directing.

Amy has tenaciously followed mentors’ advice to “keep writing,” generating scripts and articles about the film business. Her byline has appeared in The New York Observer, Film Journal, Teen Screen and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Currently residing in Los Angeles, she currently writes for the top entertainment studios.

Since 2000, Amy has been a hard working member of several writers’ groups, developing material alongside LA authors Leslie Schwartz, Hope Edleman, Dawne Knobbe and Monica Holloway. Recently, Amy was signed by The Writers House, NYC, for representation of her YA crossover book Cinnamon Girls and future projects.

An active member of SCBWI – LA, Amy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two grade school children, and a white lab named Lotus.