Amy Martin
Amy is a writer and painter who lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. She graduated from Goddard College's MFA Creative Writing Program and has written a memoir titled Flight School, for which she is currently seeking an agent/publisher.
She served as a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter Pilot in the U.S. Army from 2002-2010. She flew medevac missions in the Military Assistance to Safety and Traffic (M.A.S.T) program in Alaska and V.I.P. and air assault in the Republic of Korea. She is a commercial/instrument-rated helicopter pilot with a Private Pilot airplane certificate. After leaving the military, she spent five years at Boeing as a Change Specialist on the KC-46 Tanker and the 777X programs.
From 2020-2021, she freelanced as a ghostwriter and editor for CEOs, executives, and therapists, writing blogs, social media, Forbes and SWAAY articles, and book proposals. During the pandemic, she served as a Veteran Benefits Specialist at Opportunity Council, a non-profit that assists homeless veterans in gaining housing stability. In February 2021, she returned to the EMS rescue community and began working as an Admin Manager & Data Analyst at Camano Island Fire & Rescue.
Amy has volunteered on the board of the Camano Arts Association and headed the non-profit’s Communications Team, which handles social media, email, news releases, e-newsletters, marketing, and websites.
She can be found on Instagram @amywritesandpaints.
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Amy Martin with Typewriter paintings