Amy Tingle

Writing

Amy Tingle is an award-winning wordsmith, a former designer of button-themed jewelry, and a stickler for the serial comma.

Her first creative project most likely involved finger paint and then something made of acorns, flower petals, and moss surely followed next. She has been a snack-stand attendant on the Jersey shore, a retail sales associate at Marshall’s, a waitress, an elementary and middle school teacher, a managing editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s Books, and most recently, the mother of two amazing teenage boys.

Amy is passionate about travel, and even the smell of an airport gets her mind whirring with adventure. Her ultimate bucket list includes heading to Newark Airport, randomly choosing a spot on the destination board, and hopping a flight. Some of her favorite destinations include Italy, France, Ireland, Costa Rica, California, and Johnsburg, Illinois. For Amy, the best part about travel is culinary discovery: rigatoni with hot peppers in Isernia, falafel in the Marais district in Paris, homemade brown bread in Dublin, crabs on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, and Cheez Doodles in Johnsburg.

In 2010, sensing a need in the community to make creative expression more accessible, Amy founded BraveGirlsArt, which offers art and self-empowerment workshops to girls and women. Year-round classes and weeklong summer camps invite participants to tap into their creativity, share ideas, find common ground, and discover new and exciting ways to express themselves. More often than not, glitter or spray paint is involved.

“Tingle” is actually Amy’s middle name. Some of her friends call her “Tingley” or “Tinkle,” and her alter ego has always been Sabrina from Charlie’s Angels.

Check out Amy’s newest creative project, Food for the Soul Train.

CLASSES:

Writing the Collective: Transcending Creative Solitude  with Maya Rachel Stein

Story Tuning: Refining and Resolving Our Writing Conflicts  with Maya Rachel Stein