Amy Herring – Reporter

Amy HerringAmy Herring grew up beneath NASA’s shadow in Rocket City, USA (Huntsville, Alabama). But instead of becoming a rocket scientist, science fiction captured her imagination.

Inspired by the transition of fellow W&L law alumnus, Terry Brooks (Dragon*Con 1994 guest), from lawyer to best-selling fantasy author and Ann Crispin’s Dragon*Con 2000 and later writers’ workshops, Herring has been writing genre and mainstream stories and novels with an eye toward a career change from her current law practice (including over a decade protecting the rights to sexual privacy for Alabama citizens). Three of her genre stories have been published under her nom de plume, Louise Herring-Jones: “Colony Earth Redux” in Footprints (Hadley Rille Books, 2009); “Slimed” in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology (Fandom Press/Windstorm Creative, 2005) and “. . . would smell as sweet” at www.shorthorror.com (2006). She hasn’t given up her day job…yet.